A man is suing a cryonics firm for allegedly not respecting his late father’s wishes—or contract—to have his entire body cryogenically preserved. Instead, the firm severed and stored the man’s head, ...

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Here's some news that will give pause to those of you out there currently weighing the pros and cons of getting yourselves cryonically frozen. The son of late California scientist Dr. Laurence ...

Cryonics ("Cryo" originates from the Greek word for "cold") is a highly controversial practice that involves deep-freezing and storing deceased human bodies for long term, with the hope that in the ...

It's a scene plucked from science fiction: On their deathbed, a person is completely frozen and then stashed away, so that they might be revived in the future. But could it be possible? In this ...

Baseball great Ted Williams, a symbol of the game’s bygone era, has in the days since his death become the center of an uproar more befitting science fiction. According to one side of his family, the ...

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The heirs of Ted Williams, who died Friday at age 83, are fighting over whether to have his remains frozen and preserved. Some proponents of the practice, known as cryonics, believe that future ...

The first person Robert Ettinger froze was his mother. The founder of cryonics, the practice of freezing dead bodies for possible resuscitation in the future, stuck her in a vat of liquid nitrogen in ...

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He described cryonics as “borderlands science, because it dwells in that fuzzy region of claims that have yet to pass any tests but have some basis, however remote, in reality.” Alcor officials ...