C L I N T O N  T O W N S H I P,  Mich., Feb. 8 -- Instead of racing toward the emergency room, a special type of ambulance transports patients away from hospitals. In fact, this ambulance is ...

Do you want to live forever? Yes? OK. Here’s how. Call up one of the currently operational centers of cryonics. That’s the industry-preferred term for the practice of freezing one’s body after death ...

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 ...

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered ...

Since the age of 13, Joseph Kowalsky has harbored a fascination with life after death, pondering ways to extend his existence indefinitely. Today, Kowalsky, now 59, is among some 2,000 individuals who ...

A metro Detroit cryonics lab is experiencing a surge in international interest and memberships after accepting the body of 14-year-old British girl, who died last month and whose frozen corpse is now ...

The first person Robert Ettinger froze was his mother. The founder of cryonics, the practice of freezing dead bodies for possible resuscitation in the future, stuck her in a vat of liquid nitrogen in ...

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The remains of a 14-year-old London girl whose dying wish was to be cryogenically preserved with the hope of someday being brought back to life are being kept at the ...

This article was taken from the September 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content ...

A British teenager with a rare form of cancer will be frozen in the Cryonics Institute in Clinton Township after an order from London’s High Court. Patch reported the 14-year-old, only known by “JS,” ...

Science has been tackling new ways to stop death, which includes diving into the world of cryonics. Cryonics is an experimental effort to save lives by freezing a person's body who is so chronically ...