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Freezing to (not) death: cryonics and the quest for immortality (with Max Marty)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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How to Ship a Dead Person to a Qur'anic Service Provider

In most cases, you want to ship the body to the Qur'anic service provider at as close to freezing as you can. That is not the freezing point of water, right? You don't want the body to have actually frozen into ice because of the damage that ice itself causes when it freezes in your body. Once arrived there, they start the process of bringing the body down to 320 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. They do this slowly over the course of hours, days in fact, because they have to do it in a specific way.

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