Since the age of 13, Joseph Kowalsky has harbored a fascination with life after death, pondering ways to extend his existence indefinitely. Today, Kowalsky, now 59, is among some 2,000 individuals who ...

Erika Star says her grandpa is frozen in a tank of liquid nitrogen. June 23, 2014— -- Erika Star can’t visit her grandfather’s grave, but if she wants to, she can go to a warehouse in Michigan ...

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 ...

It’s hard to begrudge anyone who wants to live longer. Death is an unknown—the ultimate frontier—and therefore scary for many people. Medicine is aimed at improving and extending healthy lives, so ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mateo Gil's 'Realive' shows that life after death isn't all it's cracked up to be. By Aaron Couch Realive Still - Publicity - H 2016 It’s not that he’s particularly enamored with the idea of freezing ...

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 ...

What are the arguments in reply to moral issues with cryonic preservation? This is one of many questions that you asked the BBC about cryonics - the science of preserving the entire human body at ...

1. Can cryonics be performed on living people? Legally, cryonics is not performed on living individuals. However, it is hoped that one day, under carefully controlled conditions, terminally ill ...

Cryonics promises people the chance of being brought back to life many years in the future. The hope is that people with terminal illnesses might be woken up a time when such diseases and illnesses ...