Saturday, March 3, 2012

Crackpot? Visionary? // Writer arranges to be frozen after death

So far in the United States perhaps one person in a million hasmade financial arrangements to be frozen after death.

I am one of those people - a crackpot or a visionary, dependingon your point of view. I have contracted to store my remains inliquid nitrogen.

Two or three centuries in the future, when medical science issufficiently advanced, I hope to be brought back to life.

I seem to be the first science or science-fiction author to havetaken this step.

Visionary? Crackpot? That's a question I'm still trying toanswer.

I wasn't especially interested in cryonics before I visitedAlcor, a cryonics organization near Riverside, Calif., in …

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