Cryonics

Cryonics is the high-fidelity preservation of the human body, and particularly the brain, after what we would call death, in anticipation of possible future revival.

More Futurism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Cryonics is an important transhumanist technology not only because it is already available today, but because the technology is relatively mature ...

More Futurism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The Lifeboat Foundation claims Cryonics is the high-fidelity preservation of the human body, and particularly the brain, after what we would call death, in anticipation of possible future revival.

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Cryonics is an important transhumanist technology not only because it is ...

EconLog: August 2007 Archives 2007

Mr. Ettinger went on to found the nonprofit Cryonics Institute where the first client to be preserved was his mother.

Pursuing Immortality, He Followed a Frozen Path Stephen Miller 2011

Cryonics can seem pretty sensible, if you want to be immortal – though I don't think I do.

Photographer Murray Ballard's best shot 2011

In 1976, Mr. Ettinger founded the Cryonics Institute in a Detroit suburb, where he eventually stored more than 100 bodies in giant vats of liquid nitrogen, at 320 degrees below zero.

Pursuing Immortality, He Followed a Frozen Path Stephen Miller 2011

Cryonics is the process of freezing – or suspending – a body in liquid nitrogen at around –130C immediately after death.

Photographer Murray Ballard's best shot 2011

Cryonics societies sprang up in New York and California.

Pursuing Immortality, He Followed a Frozen Path Stephen Miller 2011

Unlike other cryonic organizations, Mr. Ettinger's Cryonics Institute freezes only entire bodies, not just heads as some organizations do, at reduced cost.

Pursuing Immortality, He Followed a Frozen Path Stephen Miller 2011