KrioRus
Russian transhumanist
Alexey Samykin
stands in front of
containers storing
frozen bodies at
one of KrioRus’s two
facilities in Moscow.
Samykin plans to be
a future resident
of this chamber –
while PayPal founder
Peter Thiel and
computer scientist
Ray Kurzweil are
booked into similar
US centres. Since
the urban myth
emerged that Walt
Disney’s brain was
cryogenically frozen
in the hope that it
could one day
be re-animated,
the ideas behind
cryonics have gained
popular appeal as
much as scientific
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