But I can’t help thinking that pet loss in childhood might be different. It’s often the first time a child confronts death.

There are ways of speaking about dying that very much annoy Peggy Jackson, an affable and rosy-cheeked hospice worker in Arlington, Va. She doesn’t like the militant cast of “lost her battle with,” as ...

Though no frozen humans have yet been revived, cryonics has been an industry for over fifty years. In that time, focus has shifted slightly. Lately, the emphasis has been more on brain emulation: ...

The Cryonics Institute, the world's largest provider of cryonic suspension, celebrated its 50th anniversary Sunday with ...

“When you die, it’s bye-bye, baby,” Larry King lamented on Conan O’ Brien’s show in 2014. The late talk show host, who was as enthusiastic about cryopreservation as he was about suspenders, continued, ...

The only obvious sign this is the office of a cryonics company sits on the windowsill: a stainless-steel vacuum vessel about the size of a lobster pot. It’s meant to transport a human brain, and if ...

Scientists recently revived microscopic creatures frozen for 46,000 years in the Siberian permafrost. The ancient nematodes, better known as roundworms, are able to shut their bodies down in ...

The history of any radical idea has its heroes and its villains. In cryonics, Bob Nelson has been both. He was among the first to embrace the notion that a person could be eased into a deep freeze at ...

1. Can cryonics be performed on living people? Legally, cryonics is not performed on living individuals. However, it is hoped that one day, under carefully controlled conditions, terminally ill ...

The business of cryopreservation — storing bodies at deep freeze until well into the future — got a whole lot more complicated during the pandemic. By Peter Wilson When an 87-year-old Californian man ...