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If you had the chance to be brought

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back to life, hundreds of years in

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the future, would you take it? Wondery

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newest podcast, Frozen Head, hosted

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by Ash and Elena of the hit show morbid,

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tells the true story of Lawrence

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Pilgrim, a lifelong scientist who

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planned for death his entire life.

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Because for him, death wasn't the end.

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It was just the beginning. Lawrence's

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dream to be frozen and brought back

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to life in the future pulls us into

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a cryonics soap opera filled

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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 a story about

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the desire to avoid death. The lengths

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people will go to to make that a reality.

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And what it means to be alive to

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begin with. I'm about to play a clip

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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 dogs barking. When he

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pulled up,

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the dogs always bark when anybody pulls into

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the place. Now, normally, the

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mailman delivers to the mailbox by

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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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They don't leave it at the door, like, what they use to

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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 it. So Benjamin

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opens the

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door. I'm at him and I signed for

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the box. As I'm signed for, I'm looking

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at the box. It was

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just 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

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tools. But about this

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one is different. I'm thinking this

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is a pretty small box. It doesn't sound like

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a small tools.

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Benjamin says thank you, and

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as 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 were 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 the side of

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it.

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Oh, this is deaf 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.

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I was like, let me at least give

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him a heads up because this sounds

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like something that he may

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have to deal with.

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Yeah. Like a box of human remains

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is probably something he'll have to deal

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with. I was like, your

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dad was going to be frozen upon

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his death. Is that correct? Fair question.

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My dad said, yes, he was going

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to be frozen. Why do you ask?

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I was

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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. Hey,

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