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In this week's Flightless Bird, David Farrier explores cryonics - freezing human corpses in the hope they may one day be resurrected by future humans! We interview James Arrowood, CEO of Alcor, America’s biggest cryonics outfit, to talk about the perception of this practice and what it means for Alcor’s 250 bodies on ice.
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Links
- Death To Dust: What Happens To Dead Bodies? http://www.galenpress.com/extras/extra32.htm
- Melbourne Woman On Ice: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-16/second-person-cryogenically-frozen-southern-cryonics/105517102
- A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/13/144721/a-startup-is-pitching-a-mind-uploading-service-that-is-100-percent-fatal/
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By David Farrier4.9
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In this week's Flightless Bird, David Farrier explores cryonics - freezing human corpses in the hope they may one day be resurrected by future humans! We interview James Arrowood, CEO of Alcor, America’s biggest cryonics outfit, to talk about the perception of this practice and what it means for Alcor’s 250 bodies on ice.
Email us your feedback: [email protected]
Links
- Death To Dust: What Happens To Dead Bodies? http://www.galenpress.com/extras/extra32.htm
- Melbourne Woman On Ice: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-16/second-person-cryogenically-frozen-southern-cryonics/105517102
- A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/13/144721/a-startup-is-pitching-a-mind-uploading-service-that-is-100-percent-fatal/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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