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Price of Immortality and the race to live forever - Peter Ward

Mysterious Matters: Archive - Dark Matter AM 2026

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Bob Nelson: A Cryonics Pioneer

Bob Nelson wanted to freeze a person so that they could be reanimated in the future. He was inspired by Robert Attenborough's book, "The Bible of cryonics" But when it came right down to it, he was not the scientific type of person to pull this off. 'He reminded me more of a PT Barnum type of person,' says David Frost.

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