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Who doesn’t love The Onion? “New College Graduates To Be Cryogenically Frozen Until Job Market Improves:”
“Were we to freeze these graduates at the height of vigor and ambition, however, there’s a chance we could revive them during a more prosperous time,” Hutchinson continued. “When the economy finally bounces back—10, 20, even 30 years [...]
A nurse, Mary Robbins, had a contract with Alcor to have her head frozen, but her family is suing. The details in the AP article are sketchy, but it sounds as though the family is trying to get at a $50,000 annuity that was supposed to pay for cryopreservation. Blood relationships are given entirely [...]
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