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Steel chambers, filled with liquid nitrogen, at a human body freezing facility in the US currently hold more than 170 people, with the hope that one day they can be resu…
Coagulation is the method of using special equipment that causes clinical death and preserves people in cold conditions, waiting to be revived thanks to the remarkable p…
Freezing cold is an attempt to save human life by freezing the body of patients suffering from incurable diseases that medicine currently has no treatment.
The extended organization of Alcor (Alcor Life Extension Foundation) in Arizona, USA is one of the world's largest providers of services that freeze the dead.
The company has attracted 1,100 paying customers to be frozen brain or whole body. Most of them are old people, aged over 50, who are terminally ill.
A 2-year-old Thai girl becomes the youngest person to freeze her brain after dying in hopes of reviving in another body someday.
A Chinese science fiction writer decided to freeze the brain in hopes that future technology could help her revive.
A two-year-old girl died of brain disease that had frozen her body in the hope that someday she would revive thanks to scientific advances.
Nearly 1,000 people around the world have chosen to preserve their bodies after death to wait for a chance to be reborn in the future.
Hal Finney is a cryptographer, programmer, one of the first people to join the bitcoin project, who died at the age of 58 August 28 in the United States.
In the heat of the Scottsdale desert in Arizona (Western America), 147 brains and human bodies are
In a direction that many consider to be hopeless, leading British scholars are embracing one of life's immutable principles: birth and death.