Alcor CEO James Arrowood discusses cryonics, wealthy clients and the stakes behind preserving bodies for the future. “I’m ...

The goal was to bring the dead bodies back to life.

SAN LEANDRO (KPIX) -- It is the stuff of science fiction and Hollywood movies. The promise: upon your death, your body is frozen until some future medical breakthrough restores you to full health.

The concept of “cryosleep” has always been considered a far-fetched reality. To one’s surprise, the idea is shifting from the ...

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: ...

SALEM, Ore. (KOIN) — A Salem non-profit, Oregon Cryonics, is freezing human brains for future use. It is one of only four facilities around the world. Three are in the U.S. and the other is in Russia.

Life after death, for most people, is a faithful belief in a spiritual hereafter, a transfer to a higher, non-bodily consciousness. For cryonics enthusiasts, however, a “second life” – or more ...

Science has been tackling new ways to stop death, which includes diving into the world of cryonics. Cryonics is an experimental effort to save lives by freezing a person's body who is so chronically ...

Such is the breathtaking pace of modern scientific advancement that in the three short years since the technicians at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation famously severed baseball star Ted Williams’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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