![50 years ago, the world's first cryonically preserved human started his long, disturbing journey to immortality 50 years ago, the world's first cryonically preserved human started his long, disturbing journey to immortality](https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_center,h_900,q_60,w_1600/6f5bc93e10fe1a6c66dcfe9281360a2c.jpg)
50 years ago, the world's first cryonically preserved human started his long, disturbing journey to immortality
My family and I are going to pay $28K each to freeze our bodies in liquid nitrogen tanks after we die. We hope to wake up in the future.
![Cheating Death: Inside the Cryonics Institute, Where Your Body Is Frozen With Hopes of Revival - The Atlantic Cheating Death: Inside the Cryonics Institute, Where Your Body Is Frozen With Hopes of Revival - The Atlantic](https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/video/img/2019/06/Cryonics_4/original.png)
Cheating Death: Inside the Cryonics Institute, Where Your Body Is Frozen With Hopes of Revival - The Atlantic
![An Arizona lab is freezing hundreds of bodies for medical technology to bring them back to life someday An Arizona lab is freezing hundreds of bodies for medical technology to bring them back to life someday](https://s01.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/large/993-0.jpg)
An Arizona lab is freezing hundreds of bodies for medical technology to bring them back to life someday
![Super-rich are having their brains frozen for £80,000 in the hope of being re-born | Daily Mail Online Super-rich are having their brains frozen for £80,000 in the hope of being re-born | Daily Mail Online](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/08/13/10/4F1008E100000578-0-image-a-12_1534153911686.jpg)
Super-rich are having their brains frozen for £80,000 in the hope of being re-born | Daily Mail Online
![Freezing your eggs may be getting easier, but it's no simple fertility fix | Eleanor Morgan | The Guardian Freezing your eggs may be getting easier, but it's no simple fertility fix | Eleanor Morgan | The Guardian](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/28e0e91979ca5cd61867445241464b6713e6185e/0_174_5753_3452/master/5753.jpg?width=1200&height=1200&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&s=ee39197e27c7ba2c101e02fa2eee3543)