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Hey, weirdos. Well, it happens

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to everybody who is born on this planet.

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They eventually pass away. But

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what if he had a chance to be brought

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back to life hundreds of years

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in the future. Would you

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take that opportunity? What

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Lawrence Pilgrim, a lifelong

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scientist, he planned for

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death his entire life.

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His entire life was about

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planning for his death. And

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because of him, death

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for many of us won't

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be the end. It'll be the beginning.

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You see, Lawrence's dream was to be

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frozen and brought back to life

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in the future. This is not a science fiction

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for a movie. This really is a real

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thing. It's called Cryonics.

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And this little soap opera of his is filled

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with not only dead people,

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but dead pets along with grenades,

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family feuds, hall of fame

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baseball legends, and frozen

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heads. Lots of

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frozen heads. This

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is a story about the desire to

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avoid death, which I'm

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sure most all of us

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would like to do. But it's

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also a story about the lengths people

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will go to in order to

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not die. Also,

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a kind of touches on what it means

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to be alive to begin with.

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It's a podcast called Frozen Head

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from Wondery. It's hosted by Mormons,

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Ash, and Elena who tell the story

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of a man obsessed with Immortown

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AND THE lengths THAT HE WOULD GO TO TO

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BRING HIS WIFE WITH HIM AGAINST

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HER WISHES TEARING THEIR

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FAMILY APART IN THE PROCESS. Imagine

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you not only planning for your own death

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to be frozen, but forcing your

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spouse to do it as well when

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they don't want to. Well, I'm

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gonna play just a quick portion

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of Frozen Head for you. And while

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you're listening, you can follow Frozen

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Head wherever you get your podcasts. You

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can binge all six episodes, ad

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free by subscribing to

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Wondery plus in Apple Podcasts,

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or the Wondery And I'll leave

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a link in the show description so you can find

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it easily. Here's just a quick sample

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of Frozen Head.

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Ash. Yes, Elena. What's

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going to happen to you when you die? I

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am gonna have my ashes scattered somewhere

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but beautiful. Okay. I love

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that for you. Thanks. But

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what I actually meant was what

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happens to you after you

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die? Oh, you mean the

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big question. Right. Like

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when you die, are you gone or

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Oh, like you mean am I gonna haunt you?

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Yeah. Because I am definitely gonna

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haunt you. Oh, I know. I

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know. Well, it's a

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question that Lawrence Pilgrim spent

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his life thinking about right

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up until April tenth two thousand

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and fifteen. When he dropped

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dead on the sidewalk. He

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was around ninety, so it's not a

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super huge shock. There was no foul

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play. Nothing unusual at the scene.

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It was just a natural death. Minus

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the face plant on concrete and grass.

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It's pretty much the best kind of death

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you could hope for. Ninety long

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successful years and then boom,

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you're dead. Except that's

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not how Lawrence saw it. For Lawrence,

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death was not the end. This

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was just the beginning, and the

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real shocks were still

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to come. From

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Wondery, the makers of over my dead

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body and the shrink neck store comes

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new series about a lifelong search

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for answers. He was just kind of

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like the mad scientist. Why do we get old

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and die? What can we do to reverse that?

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For second chances. That was

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his goal to have his

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whole body preserved and Sometime

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in the future brought back. He

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had asked her just to sort of

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out of the blue. What do you think of cryo and

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the lengths people go to get them.

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And there are turtles, grenades,

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human antifreeze, gold

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coins, and frozen

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heads. Lots of

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frozen heads. We can see that there's a

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body in there. And immediately,

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see that the body has no head. They

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wanted me to take the patients

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out of liquid nitrogen and show them their

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heads and bodies. How could you be

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so cold as to just

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wanna use her as one of your science

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experiments? I'm

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Ash, and I'm Elena. We host a

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show called morbid. Normally,

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we focus on what happens in the

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lead up to death. But this time,

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it's about what happens next.

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Follow Frozen Head on Amazon Music

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or wherever you got your podcasts. You

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con bench the entire series early and

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ad free by subscribing to Wondery plus

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in Apple Podcasts or The Wondery

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People say, well, that is dead. Well,

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there's a lot more complex than that.

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The podcast is called

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Frozen Head from Wondery, and

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you can binge all six up SOs

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right now, commercial free by

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subscribing to Plus in

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Apple Podcasts or the Wonderry

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app. Again, I have placed a link in the

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show description to make that easy for you to

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do. But now it's got me wondering, would

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you want to be froze and be

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brought back to life hundreds of years from

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now?