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from the independent, i find the whole thing a bit creepy.
What if you were told that you could cheat death by having your veins filled with chemicals, before being hung upside down in a sleeping bag inside a freezing vat of liquid nitrogen, to be resurrected in decades or centuries to come?
As unlikely as it sounds, more than 200 bodies are stored like this around the world, as increasing numbers of people place their faith in the bizarre but fascinating science of cryonics as a means of achieving everlasting life. Now, the newest addition to the deep freezers is the father of the burgeoning movement himself, Robert Ettinger, who has died - or merely completed the first of his life cycles - aged 92.
The former physics teacher is the 106th person to be stored at the Cryonics Institute in Detroit that he founded in 1976, after science fiction ideas inspired him to write a book, The Prospect of Immortality - which presented the concept as very much not fiction. It was the bone-graft surgery that he received on his legs after being wounded in the Battle of the Bulge during the Second World War that first interested him in the advancements of medical technology - and certainly nobody could accuse Ettinger of being a pessimist. "If civilisation endures, medical science should eventually be able to repair almost any damage to the human body," he wrote, "including freezing damage and senile debility or other cause of death." He added: "No matter what kills us, whether old age or disease, and even if freezing techniques are still crude when we die, sooner or later our friends of the future should be equal to the task of reviving and curing us."