Cold Comfort- Preserving the dearly departed with cryonics

Every year, Paul Hagen travels from Wisconsin to Clinton Township to pay respects to his father, one of 94 frozen corpses that one day may outsmart death.The father and son were tight. They spoke every day. And Hagen wants to continue those conversations in the future, when they're reanimated by yet-invented technology and come back to life. Maybe forever.Sounds crazy?
Not to Hagen or hundreds of other members at The Cryonics Institute, which is housed in a nondescript industrial park off Interstate 94. Dismissed by mainstream science, some religions and much of the public, cryonics followers don't believe this lifetime is long enough and want to come back from the dead.

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[WorldTributes]

Beats going to a cemetery i suppose. I rem reading about one cryonics firm that went out of business and the dead or "patients" as they like to refer to them, ended up being thawed out!

[DK0526]

excellent video showing some everyday down to earth people who just want to take an experimental ambulence ride to a future hospital that may or may not exist. They may be right and then the rest of the world will look like fools...sort of how we look back at the masses who believed the earth was flat. If they are wrong that at least they are no worse off then everyone else who is cremated or buried. So in a sense they have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

[FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7]

0:18 thunderfoot on top?

[1NX9]

I remember Ben Best!

He led a cryonic group in TO back in the 90's.