{"id":10885,"date":"2020-08-04T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10885"},"modified":"2020-09-08T20:17:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T03:17:50","slug":"temporary-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/08\/04\/temporary-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/photography\/proof\/2018\/february\/nucci-transhumanists-technology\/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=SpecialEdition_Escape_20200826&amp;rid=AF14D696E6310E00948D67C8C3A3B488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from National Geographic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">These People Believe Death Is Only Temporary<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Transhumanists believe in a future of human immortality. A community in Russia is working to make it happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/contributors\/s\/daniel-stone.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>DANIEL STONE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"665\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-08-at-20.13.59.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-08-at-20.13.59.jpg 665w, https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-08-at-20.13.59-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><figcaption><em>Transhumanist and neurobiologist Olga Levitskaya is photographed following an event at the Cosmonaut Museum in Moscow to raise funds for the CyberSuit. Levitskaya is wearing a\u2026\u00a0PHOTOGRAPH BY GIUSEPPE NUCCI<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a small, white warehouse two hours north of Moscow are 56 dead people who hope to live again. Their bodies are upside down, their blood fully drained from their arteries, as they wait, immersed in negative 196-degree Celsius liquid nitrogen for the next 100 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What they\u2019re waiting for is a new life, or a continuation of the one they already lived. Many of the bodies belong to people who reached the end of their life naturally, usually at an advanced age. They made the decision to be cryopreserved before they died, or in some cases, their family signed the paperwork post-mortem and paid the $36,000 to freeze their loved one\u2019s body (or $18,000 for just their head) for the standard term of a century\u2014which can perhaps be extended, to be determined, based on where science leaves us in the 22nd century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/photography\/proof\/2018\/february\/nucci-transhumanists-technology\/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=SpecialEdition_Escape_20200826&amp;rid=AF14D696E6310E00948D67C8C3A3B488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Nat Geo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from National Geographic These People Believe Death Is Only Temporary Transhumanists believe in a future of human immortality. A community in Russia is working to make it happen. BY\u00a0DANIEL STONE In a small, white warehouse two hours north of Moscow are 56 dead people who hope to live again. 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