Dying is the last thing anyone wants to do – so keep cool and carry on
by Elizabeth Day from on (#Q3KZ)
Cryonics - the preservation of animals and humans at ultra-cold temperatures - is booming in the US, notwithstanding the $100,000 minimum price tag
Call the headquarters of Alcor in Scottsdale, Arizona, and you are greeted by a recorded message. "If you would like to report the death or near-death of an Alcor member," says a chirpy midwestern voice, "please press two."
The Alcor Life Extension Foundation - to give it its full title - has an unexceptional grey concrete exterior that resembles a regional bank branch. Inside, however, are the bodies or brains of 138 dead people, stored in vats of liquid nitrogen in the hope that, at some point in the future, advances made in science will be capable of bringing them back to life.
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