Since the age of 13, Joseph Kowalsky has harbored a fascination with life after death, pondering ways to extend his existence indefinitely. Today, Kowalsky, now 59, is among some 2,000 individuals who ...

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: ...

Erika Star says her grandpa is frozen in a tank of liquid nitrogen. June 23, 2014— -- Erika Star can’t visit her grandfather’s grave, but if she wants to, she can go to a warehouse in Michigan ...

There are ways of speaking about dying that very much annoy Peggy Jackson, an affable and rosy-cheeked hospice worker in Arlington, Va. She doesn’t like the militant cast of “lost her battle with,” as ...

What are the arguments in reply to moral issues with cryonic preservation? This is one of many questions that you asked the BBC about cryonics - the science of preserving the entire human body at ...

Mateo Gil's 'Realive' shows that life after death isn't all it's cracked up to be. By Aaron Couch Realive Still - Publicity - H 2016 It’s not that he’s particularly enamored with the idea of freezing ...

Robert Ettinger, pioneer of the cryonics movement that advocates freezing the dead in the hope that medical technology will enable them to live again someday, has died. He was 92. Ettinger died ...

Bart Kosko, a professor of electrical engineering at USC and author of "Heaven in a Chip" (Random House, 2000), is on the science advisory board of the nonprofit Alcor cryonics corporation. Go ahead ...

1. Can cryonics be performed on living people? Legally, cryonics is not performed on living individuals. However, it is hoped that one day, under carefully controlled conditions, terminally ill ...

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 ...

In pursuit of life everlasting, some turn to God. Others turn to science. Or rather, something science-ish. If you've ever hoped to be cryogenically frozen, you might come across a legal hurdle: while ...