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by Jason Tin

28 Jul 05:55am

Filed under: Cryogenics, Death, Future, Robert Ettinger, Society

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By now, Robert Ettinger should be well and truly frozen.

Enter the human iceblock capsule

At 92, the man widely credited as the founder of the cryogenics movement had already seen the some of the best and worse of the past century.

He died on Saturday and reportedly became the 106th patient at his Michigan-based Cryonics Institute, where he joins his mother and first two wives. I genuinely hope it all works out for him and that he lives long and prospers… again.

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Marta Sandberg says:

03:10pm | 01/08/11

Mark G says: 08:23am | 29/07/11 Marta, I would like to point out that rejuvenating live cells is completely different to rejuvenating dead or destroyed cell tissue. With things like stem cells we are not that far of being able to rejuvenate living cells now. Dead cell matter that has… Read more »
Marta Sandberg says:

03:01pm | 01/08/11

It is easy to dismiss something if you haven’t taken the time to research it and, unfortunately, your comments show that you do not understand the basic of cryonics. Before I signed up for cryonics I spent three years trying to debunk it. In the end I had to reluctantly… Read more »

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