Cryonics

You just don’t understand cryonics

Max More, CEO of the cryonics company Alcor, has produced a video in response to physicist Michio Kaku’s surprisingly weak critique of cryonics. In all fairness to Kaku, he kinda had this coming. First, he couldn’t even get the terminology right, describing the practice as “cryogenics.” As More points out in the video, that’s the…

io9 George Dvorsky Dec 23

23-Year Old Kim Suozzi Undergoes Cryonic Preservation After Successful Fundraising Campaign

Back in September we told you about Kim Suozzi, the 23-year old neuroscience student who was in the midst of battling terminal brain cancer. Sadly, she passed away last week on January 17th — but not before a successful fundraising campaign managed to secure the funds required to grant Suozzi her dying wish: cryonic preservation.…

io9 George Dvorsky Jan 21

Photos go behind the scenes of the world’s cryonics facilities

Cryonics may be a fanciful notion to some and it’s certainly an expensive undertaking, but that hasn’t stopped a handful of people from having their bodies cryogenically frozen in the hope of being revived in some distant future. Photographer Murray Ballard stepped into the world of cryopreservation with his camera in hand, offering an unusual…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 6

Futurists set up charitable fund to help terminally ill woman get cryonically preserved

Several weeks ago, 23-year old Kim Suozzi asked the Reddit community what she should do with the last few months of her life. Suozzi, who has terminal brain cancer, is only expected to live for another three to six months, making her request all the more urgent. Among the many responses received, Suozzi was particularly…

io9 George Dvorsky Sep 3

The economic problems with cryogenically freezing your body

Are you looking forward to one day preserving your freshly expired body with cryoprotective fluids and waiting for revival, decades or centuries in the future? Several cryopreservation companies cater to this option, but how does one fund this process? Cryopreservation is not just for the rich — the money necessary is often garnered through a…

io9 Keith Veronese Mar 2

Man Who Vowed to Live Forever Died Over the Weekend

Robert C.W. Ettinger, who famously said that death was for the unprepared and the unimaginative, died on Saturday. But the physics teacher and science fiction writer may be coming back — his family froze his body cryonically. Ettinger, widely considered the founder of the cryonics movement, is being stored in a vat of liquid nitrogen…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 25

Old Twilight Zone comic demonstrates why cryonic life expansion is a dumb idea

We’ve made our love of Gold Key Twilight Zone comics abundantly clear. The comics’ twists were abrupt and frequently deranged. In this deliciously absurd strip from 1973’s Twilight Zone 50, a rich old codger buys immortality for approximately 15 minutes. https://gizmodo.com/this-twilight-zone-comic-is-one-of-the-funniest-example-5672686 This strip, “Nature Way,” was illustrated by Walt Simonson and showcases why waking up…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Nov 8

The Wives of the Cryogenically Frozen

It’s not hard to see why, for some, cryonics is an attractive postmortem option; it offers a chance to defy one’s very mortality. But for the spouses of the to-be frozen, it can be something else entirely: abandonment and betrayal. Nearly as long as the idea of cryonics has existed, so too has the Hostile…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jul 9

Creepy Portraits Of Where All Those Frozen Heads Go

These are pictures of facilities where technicians store cryogenically frozen bodies in the hope that one day they can be revived using advanced technology. Patrick Millard’s photos of cryostat tanks blur the line between death and industrial design. You can learn more about this series of photos, and see more of Millard’s work on his…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 12

Cryonics Company And Family Battle Over Ownership Of Woman’s Head

A bizarre legal case pits the family of recently-deceased Mary Robbins against Arizona cryonics company Alcor. Robbins signed a contract with Alcor to have her head cryogenically frozen after her death. But now her daughter won’t hand the head over. It sounds like a lawsuit from the future. Four years ago, Robbins, a nurse, signed…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 22

Let’s Get Cryonic

This week you can celebrate the science fictional practice of cryonics during Colorado’s “Frozen Dead Guy Days,” a weekend of revelry devoted to “Grandpa” Bredo Morstoel, a guy who has been cryonically frozen inside a shed for several years. His hope was that at some point he’d be defrosted in a future world where he…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 3

You just don’t understand cryonics

23-Year Old Kim Suozzi Undergoes Cryonic Preservation After Successful Fundraising Campaign

Photos go behind the scenes of the world’s cryonics facilities

Futurists set up charitable fund to help terminally ill woman get cryonically preserved

The economic problems with cryogenically freezing your body

Man Who Vowed to Live Forever Died Over the Weekend

Old Twilight Zone comic demonstrates why cryonic life expansion is a dumb idea

The Wives of the Cryogenically Frozen

Creepy Portraits Of Where All Those Frozen Heads Go

Cryonics Company And Family Battle Over Ownership Of Woman’s Head

Let’s Get Cryonic

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