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US cryonics founder dies, has body frozen

Robert Ettinger, founder of a movement that advocates storing bodies at ultra-low temperatures after death until new technology allows them to be revived, has died and his body frozen at the institute he founded, his family ...

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Cryopreservation—the field of possibilities

Cryonics have long been a staple of fiction, including everything from Philip K. Dick's classic 1969 sci-fi novel Ubik to the cheesy 1992 Mel Gibson film Forever Young. More recent examples include French author Marc Levy's ...