Over 100,000 people die each day globally. Why don't more of us consider cryonics — the practice of freezing the clinically dead in the hopes of bringing them back to life at a later date — as a way ...

Nestled in the picturesque landscape of the Arizona desert is a very non-picturesque office park, in Scottsdale, where the Alcor Corporation says they may have found the secret to eternal life. Max ...

A lot of people are letting misguided emotion and cryonics ick factor guide them into believing the false accusations. It seems clear that the accuser Larry Johnson planned to try to both make a buck ...

Anyone who has experienced the devastating loss of a loved one can understand the impulse to latch on to anything that might bring that person back. It's that very impulse that drives some people to ...

Cryonics has moved from the world of science fiction to a real-world pursuit, driven by the belief that future medicine may one day reverse the effects of aging, disease and even death. It is about ...

In the desert climate of Scottsdale, Arizona, rest 147 brains and bodies, all frozen in liquid nitrogen with the goal of being revived one day. It's not science fiction — to some it might not even be ...

Scottsdale is the home of Alcor Cryonics, one of two companies to offer cryonic services in the US. Although Zoltan says he plans to sign up with Alcor, right now he’s too busy to visit the facility ...

Freezing the human body for future resurrection hundreds of years from now may seem like an impossibility, but for some believers in Scottsdale, death is a new beginning. The process is called ...

It's the stuff of science fiction: chilling your body inside a stainless steel chamber for years on end. But is cryonics a way to reverse death or is it just a pipe dream? Claire Reilly was a video ...

Via Next Big Future, I've learned that the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, which is devoted to researching cryonics technology, provides updated case studies of its members when they are cryonically ...

Ted Williams, former Boston Red Sox slugger. NEW YORK (CBS/AP) Ted Williams was trying to get ahead of the game. But his efforts to have his frozen head thawed out by some future generation may have ...

Alcor officials acknowledge that the science behind re-animation simply does not exist. In fact, their Web site lists a number of problems confronting such a science, including the fact that cryonics ...