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Cryonics and Marriage

Truly strange bedfellows!

One would never have guessed that there could be a link between the two but apparently there can!

Here's the proof:


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/magazine/11cryonics-t.html?hpw

Well, I guess every couple has to tackle the issue in their own way.

I want the folks who want to preserve themselves to be allowed to do so if they have got the money and want to do so.

Perhaps, some of the 'geniuses' of the present age might be preserved in such a way ...

Just a thought ... how about preserving the brain of Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or Wolfgang Ketterle ...
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