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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It might seem like historical science fiction—remember Austin Powers? the legend of Walt Disney?—but cryonics are making a ...

A small team in Scottsdale is preserving bodies and pets at ultra-low temperatures in the hope that future medicine may catch ...

John Rodriguez had intended to help usher in a brave new world of immortality. Instead, he finds himself running what is little more than a high- tech refrigerator for dead pets. "We don't have human ...

The history of any radical idea has its heroes and its villains. In cryonics, Bob Nelson has been both. He was among the first to embrace the notion that a person could be eased into a deep freeze at ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

View the latest or submit your own film. Nasar Ghafoor looks healthy and vibrant, but he has mortality on his mind. Ghafoor started a family late in life, and fears that he won’t be there to see his ...

What if you were told that you could cheat death by having your veins filled with chemicals, before being hung upside down in a sleeping bag inside a freezing vat of liquid nitrogen, to be resurrected ...