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If you had the chance to be brought back

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to life, hundreds of years in the future,

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would you take it? Wondery newest

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podcast, Frozen Head, hosted

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by Ashen Elena of the hit show morbid,

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tells the true story of Lauren's Pilgrim,

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a lifelong scientist who planned for death

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his entire life. Because for him,

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death wasn't the end. It was just the beginning.

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Lawrence's dream to be frozen and brought

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back to life in the future pulls us

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into a cryonics soap opera.

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Filled with dead pets, grenades, family

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feuds, hall of fame baseball legends,

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and frozen heads, lots

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of frozen heads. It's story

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about the desire to avoid death,

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the lengths people will go to, to make that a

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reality, and what it means to be alive

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to begin with. I'm about to play a

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clip from Frozen Head. While

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It's a fresh spring day in Montana,

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but inside a modest white ranch house,

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The living room is filled with death.

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There's a dead fox, a couple of

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dead coyotes, and deer heads

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mounted on the wall. This

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is the Pilgrim's home. Pilgrim,

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as in Lawrence Pilgrim.

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The man who tried to have his wife frozen in

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Alcor, the very same. But

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this is his son, Kurt's house.

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On this day, Kurt's son, Lawrence's

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grandson,

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Benjamin, is at home when

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he hears something outside.

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I remember the dog's barking. When he

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pulled up, the dog's always barking when anybody falls

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Wondery the place. Now, normally,

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the mailman delivers to the mailbox

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by the road. But today, he's

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come all the way up to the front

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door, and he's holding a package.

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Hey, damn. Leave it at the door, like, what they usually

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do. So I was like, yeah. Well, I'm sure it's just something

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needs to be signed for So Benjamin

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opens the door. I met him and

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I signed for the box. As I'm signed

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for

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him, looking at the box. It was just

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a regular old cardboard box. It's

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a rectangular shaped box, about

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a foot long and half as wide,

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a little bit bigger than a shoe box. Benjamin

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is used to seeing boxes arrive at the

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house. His dad, Kurt,

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sells tools, but something

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about this one is different. I'm

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thinking this is a pretty small box. It doesn't

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sound like it's four tools. Benjamin

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says thank you, and as

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the mailman walks back to his truck.

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Benjamin takes a closer look

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at what's in his hands.

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I believe the markings extremely

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fragile ashes or

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body remains or something

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of that regard was on this side of

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it.

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Oh. This is definitely not

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a box of tools. No. It's

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not. His dad is out on a

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delivery, but Benjamin decides to

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give him a call I

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was like, let me at least give him

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a heads up because this sounds like

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something that he may have to deal with. Yeah.

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Like a box of human remains is

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probably something he'll have to deal with.

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I

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was like, your dad

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was going to be frozen upon his death.

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Is

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that correct? Fair question. My

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dad said, yes, he was going

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to be frozen Why do you ask?

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I was like, I am holding a box

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that I just signed for that is containing

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someone's ashes.

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