Cryonics: Alcor Life Extension Foundation

I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons, in such a manner that they might be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to an ordinary death, being immersed with a few friends in a cask of Madeira, until that time, then to be recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country.
- Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Jacques Barbeu Dubourg

Ignorance is not bliss – it's downright dangerous.
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