Anyone who has experienced the devastating loss of a loved one can understand the impulse to latch on to anything that might bring that person back. It's that very impulse that drives some people to ...

In the moments just before Kim Suozzi died of cancer at age 23, it fell to her boyfriend, Josh Schisler, to follow through with the plan to freeze her brain. As her pulse monitor sounded its alarm and ...

Over 100,000 people die each day globally. Why don't more of us consider cryonics — the practice of freezing the clinically dead in the hopes of bringing them back to life at a later date — as a way ...

It’s hard to begrudge anyone who wants to live longer. Death is an unknown—the ultimate frontier—and therefore scary for many people. Medicine is aimed at improving and extending healthy lives, so ...

Though no frozen humans have yet been revived, cryonics has been an industry for over fifty years. In that time, focus has shifted slightly. Lately, the emphasis has been more on brain emulation: ...

Scottsdale is the home of Alcor Cryonics, one of two companies to offer cryonic services in the US. Although Zoltan says he plans to sign up with Alcor, right now he’s too busy to visit the facility ...

On January 12, 1967, psychology professor James Bedford died due to cancer-related natural causes. Within hours, a team of scientists filled his veins with antifreeze. They packed his body in a ...

The only thing I knew about cryonics – preserving bodies at freezing temperatures in the hope that scientific advancements will bring about eventual resuscitation – was that Walt Disney had opted for ...

Nectome wants to preserve your brain and at some point in the future they would digitize your memories to upload your consciousness. Alcor wants to preserve your brain and body so that when future ...