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Life after death, for most people, is a faithful belief in a spiritual hereafter, a transfer to a higher, non-bodily consciousness. For cryonics enthusiasts, however, a second life or more accurately, a resuscitated life with a little help from freezer storage here on Earth is the goal.

The Prospect of Immortality is a six-year study by UK photographer Murray Ballard, who has traveled the world pulling back the curtain on the amateurs, optimists, businesses and apparatuses of cryonics.

Its not a large industry, says Ballard, who visited the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Phoenix, Arizona; the Cryonics Institute in Detroit, Michigan; KrioRus in Moscow, Russia; and Suspended Animation Inc in Boytan Beach, Florida; among others.

Cryonics is the preservation of deceased humans in liquid nitrogen at temperatures just shy of its boiling point of 196C/77 Kelvin. Cryopreservation of humans is not reversible with current science, but cryonicists hypothesize that people who are considered dead by current medical definitions may someday be recovered by using advanced future technologies.

Stats are hard to come by, but it is estimated there are about 2,000 people signed up for cryonics and approximately 250 people currently cryopreserved. Over 100 pets have also been placed in vats of liquid nitrogen with the hopes of a future recovery.

Ballards project began in 2006 after he read a news article, Freezer Failure Ends Couples Hopes of Life After Death, about a French couple who had been kept in industrial freezers beneath their chateau in the Loire valley. He phoned up a small group of UK cryonicists and attended their meetings and training sessions. Later, funding from an arts organization paid for two trips to the U.S.

A chance meeting with one of the founders of KrioRus, a Russian cryonics organization, at a UK conference set up a memorable week-long trip to Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Vorenzh. There he photographed the two resting places of the first Russian cryonics neuro-patient.

I photographed her grave in a cemetery just outside St. Petersburg and the cryostat containing her head at the facility in Moscow.

Heads take up less storage space than whole bodies. Theyre cheaper to store.

Neuro-patients dont want to come back to life in the same old body they died in. Instead they want to have a new body provided for them. They are only concerned with preserving the brain, which, they believe, will retain their memory and identity, says Ballard.

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Cryonics Photos Delve Into the Frozen World of the Immortality Faithful

Why aren't young, new acts getting any space on new music's real estate, the front cover of the New Musical Express?

The anniversary cover featuring John Lennon.

Imagine the scene: as music journalists from across the world are summoned to the Alcor Cryonics Facility in Arizona for a mystery press conference, its not just the desert heat thats causing them to sweat. Theyve been told to expect the biggest news in years, but what could it be? Rumours clog the forums on internet message boards; fans send frantic texts to one another; Twitter is flooded with ever-wilder speculation.

As the hacks are led into the vast metallic warehouse, a door in the corner suddenly opens. Out step three nigh-on spiritual figures but ghosts, these are not. John Lennon, Ian Curtis and Kurt Cobain have been brought back from the dead, in a medical revolution also marking a joyous day for three generations of music fans. The lead singers of Joy Division and Nirvana announce that theyre ready to put out new material (it turns out that being frozen and reanimated is a surprisingly effective cure for suicidal depression, and theyre really feeling quite chipper now), while a 40-year-old John Lennon proclaims hes re-uniting with Paul McCartney, now 30 years his senior though back home Ringo is still waiting for his phonecall.

And the journalists at NME? They cant believe their luck. Immediately scrapping their plans for the next three issues, they give the legendary figures a cover interview each to mark their return.

Of course, this is as much a fantasy for scientists as it is for art directors at the New Musical Express. But despite Lennon, Curtis and Cobain remaining under the sod, and for donkeys years too, that didnt stop the magazine famous for championing new bands from delving deep into their picture archives to use that long-gone trio for their cover images across three consecutive weeks last month.

Has NME forgotten what the "N" in its name stands for? Glancing at the shelves of your local newsagents these days, it would often be fair to think so.

Yes, the current issue can be forgiven a well-deserved nostalgic pat on its own back. Having been an integral part of Britains gig-going and record-buying culture for 60 years, its only appropriate for NME to celebrate its diamond anniversary with eight collectors front covers. Its hardly the freshest selection of rock stars there is surely little teenage excitement to be found in John Lydon, Patti Smith, the Gallagher brothers, Paul Weller and the Manic Street Preachers, even alongside the Arctic Monkeys and Brandon Flowers of The Killers. But then celebrating the past is what anniversary issues are all about.

Yet what of the modern NME on a standard week? This year weve also seen the Rolling Stones, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, David Bowie and Joe Strummer all featuring below that legendary masthead names that would be more suited to Mojo or Uncut, the monthly organs of the middle-aged 50-quid-man. Throw in other musicians who were at their peak 15 or more years ago Blur, the Stone Roses, the Cure, the Gallaghers again and a trend is there for all to see. Aging or dead rockers are increasingly laying claim to new musics most highly valued real estate, previously reserved for the young and the new.

Of course, you cant judge a magazine by its cover just as you cant a book. Should 50-quid-man flick through the current issue, hes unlikely to be familiar with Flying Lotus, King Krule, or Melodys Echo Chamber. The inside of the magazine one of the most beautifully designed on the market, produced by some of the most dedicated and passionate journalists around is far from becoming a dad-rock bible.

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by Jasmine Huda / News 4

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Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:31 PM

Updated Sunday, Sep 30 at 8:30 AM

ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) -- A 23-year-old braincancer patient said she will do whatever it takes to extend herlife. Even if it means freezing her body. "Like it or not, I'm probably going to die soon from brain cancer, Kim Suozzi says in her video diary. With months left to live maybe more, maybe less - Suozzi leans on her family and long-time boyfriend, Josh, for support. The right side of her body has already begun to shut down. My leg is weak. I shuffle when I walk and I can't really use [my right] arm at all, she said. But despite the deterioration of her health, the Ballwin native believes her life is far from over. After she dies, Suozzis body will be cryo-preserved. The process involves freezing the body, with the hope that it can be revived or re-animated if a cure for the disease is discovered. Dr. David Ettinger, son of Cryonics Institute Founder Robert Ettinger, makes no guarantees that a body can be brought back to life. However, he said, technological advances over time are giving patients hope that they can re-enter the world. Cryonics patients are people like me like my family who believe they want to live longer lives, he said. Whether in some cases their lives are tragically cut short, or in others they are cut short by old age. The Institute is located in Clinton Township, Michigan. On its website, the Institute states that it has cryopreserved more than 100 humans, all stored at a precise liquid nitrogen temperature. Suozzi said she would like to be cryopreserved at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona. The cost, she said, is approximately $80,000. Through an appeal made online, she has is halfway toward her goal. Suozzi said if she cannot raise the remaining amount of money, she will likely opt for the Cryonics Institute, which charges a one-time, $28,000 fee for cryopreservation (not including transportation of the body). Suozzi said the online community has been very generous and supportive both emotionally and financially. She said most of her donors are strangers who want to help her carry out her final wishes. Suozzi said she knows the chances of being re-animated are close to zero. But she said she has nothing to lose. I just kind of think of it as the last thing I can possibly do to give myself another chance, she said. The options are, I die. Nothing happens, likely. Or I come back. Things are weird, probably. But I'm alive again. For Suozzi, that dollar amount represents a key to a longer life. The Institute agrees. We are in it for one purpose and one purpose only and that is to give ourselves and our family members a chance in the future, Ettinger said.

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A chance in the future? Terminally-ill cancer patient arranges for body to be frozen

DENVER - The frozen corpse that has inspired a Colorado towns whimsical Frozen Dead Guy Days celebration may soon be put on ice somewhere else, but festival organizers said the bodys removal will not have a chilling effect on the annual event.

We will continue on whether or not Bredo Morstoel is here, festival owner Amanda MacDonald s aid Wednesday of the man whose body has been packed in dry ice outside Nederland, Colorado, since 1993.

A financial dispute between Morstoels grandson, Tryve Bauge, and the man hired to replenish the dry ice on a monthly basis, Bo Shaffer, has led to Bauge threatening to move his grandfathers body out of Colorado.

Each month for 18 years, Shaffer has hauled 1,700 pounds (770 kg) of dry ice - c arbon dioxide in solid form - to a remote shed above Nederland to keep the corpse of Morstoel at minus-24 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-31 degrees Celsius) and in a state of cryonic suspension.

But Shaffer said he quit after Bauge refused to pay for the rising costs of fuel and ice, which has made the endeavor unprofitable.

It takes two of us to make the four-hour roundtrip, Shaffer told Reuters. My quitting is the only way to get his (Bauges) attention.

Bauge, who lives in Norway, did not immediately return an email message seeking comment about the dispute. But he told the Boulder Daily Camera newspaper that he is exploring the possibility of mo v ing his grandfather to the Cryonics Institute in Michigan.

Cryonics is the process of freezing and storing a corpse to prevent decomposition in anticipation of medical technology that could bring the dead back to life. Liquid nitrogen, which is far colder than dry ice, is typically used for cryonic preservation.

Morstoel died of heart failure in his native Norway in 1989, and Bauge had his grandfathers body frozen and transported to a cryonics facility in California. Ultimately he had the corpse moved to Nederland, where Bauge lived at the time.

When Bauge was deported because of an expired visa, he hired Shaffer to act as an unofficial caretaker.

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'Frozen Dead Guy' festival to go on

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The frozen corpse that has inspired a Colorado towns whimsical Frozen Dead Guy Days celebration may soon be put on ice somewhere else, but festival organizers said the bodys removal will not have a chilling effect on the annual event.

We will continue on whether or not Bredo Morstoel is here, festival owner Amanda MacDonald s aid Wednesday of the man whose body has been packed in dry ice outside Nederland, Colorado, since 1993.

A financial dispute between Morstoels grandson, Tryve Bauge, and the man hired to replenish the dry ice on a monthly basis, Bo Shaffer, has led to Bauge threatening to move his grandfathers body out of Colorado.

Each month for 18 years, Shaffer has hauled 1,700 pounds (770 kg) of dry ice - c arbon dioxide in solid form - to a remote shed above Nederland to keep the corpse of Morstoel at minus-24 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-31 degrees Celsius) and in a state of cryonic suspension.

But Shaffer said he quit after Bauge refused to pay for the rising costs of fuel and ice, which has made the endeavor unprofitable.

It takes two of us to make the four-hour roundtrip, Shaffer told Reuters. My quitting is the only way to get his (Bauges) attention.

Bauge, who lives in Norway, did not immediately return an email message seeking comment about the dispute. But he told the Boulder Daily Camera newspaper that he is exploring the possibility of mo v ing his grandfather to the Cryonics Institute in Michigan.

Cryonics is the process of freezing and storing a corpse to prevent decomposition in anticipation of medical technology that could bring the dead back to life. Liquid nitrogen, which is far colder than dry ice, is typically used for cryonic preservation.

Morstoel died of heart failure in his native Norway in 1989, and Bauge had his grandfathers body frozen and transported to a cryonics facility in California. Ultimately he had the corpse moved to Nederland, where Bauge lived at the time.

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