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The Shady World of Cryonics: Missing Heads, Bank Robbers and an Italian Funeral Mogul
The Shady World of Cryonics: Missing Heads, Bank Robbers and an Italian Funeral Mogul
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Length:
65 minutes
Released:
Apr 19, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
We're joined by journalist and writer Peter Ward, whose upcoming book The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever is out this week.
Since the times of Gilgamesh, humans have dreamed of living forever. Since the 1960s, when the son of a bank-robbing mobster froze a psychologist (then lost him), cryonics has been touted as a way to be reanimated in decades, or centuries, from now.
Except that, as you might expect, cryonics is a shady world populated by hucksters, crooks and, in one, crazy case, a warring Russian couple who employed the services of a Calabrian funeral magnate.
Sounds fishy? It is.
Since the times of Gilgamesh, humans have dreamed of living forever. Since the 1960s, when the son of a bank-robbing mobster froze a psychologist (then lost him), cryonics has been touted as a way to be reanimated in decades, or centuries, from now.
Except that, as you might expect, cryonics is a shady world populated by hucksters, crooks and, in one, crazy case, a warring Russian couple who employed the services of a Calabrian funeral magnate.
Sounds fishy? It is.
Released:
Apr 19, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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