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If you had the chance to be

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brought back to life hundreds of years

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in the future, would you take it? Wondery

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newest podcast Frozen head

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hosted by Ash and Elena of the hit show

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morbid tells the true story of

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Bahrens Pilgrim, a lifelong scientist

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who planned for death his entire life.

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Because for him, death wasn't the end, but

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just the beginning. Lawrence's dream

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was to be frozen and brought back to

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life in the future. And his story

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is a cryonic 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 of course, frozen heads. It's

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a story 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. You're about to hear 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 Bahrens Pilgrim.

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The man who tried to have his wife in an Alcor,

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the very same. But this

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is his son, Kurt's house. On

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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. I

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remember the dogs barking. When he pulled

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up, the dogs always bark when anybody pulls into

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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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They didn't leave it at the door, like what they usually

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

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needs to be signed for it. So Benjamin

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opens the door. I'm at him and

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I signed for the box as I'm signed

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for him, looking 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 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 a sport 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 at

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what in his hands. I

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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. Oh, this is definitely not

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a box of tools. No. It's

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not. Is dad as 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 get 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 was like, your dad

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was going to be frozen upon his death.

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Is that correct? Fair question. My

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dad said, yes. He was going

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to be frozen. Why the US?

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I was like, I am holding

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a box that I just signed for that

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is containing someone's ashes.

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