Alcor Life Extension Foundation - cryonics (en.wikipedia.org)

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[-] johny_joe_1975@discuss.online 3 points 2 months ago

In short, they are "freezing of human corpses and brains in liquid nitrogen after legal death, with hopes of resurrecting and restoring them to full health if the technology to do so becomes available in the future."

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 2 points 2 months ago

This stuff been around since like the 60's. Do people not know of this stuff?

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