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Cryonic stasis is apparently back

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In 1967, a sketchy tabloid called The National Spotlite ran a story that Walt Disney, who’d died the previous year, had arranged for his body to be kept in cryonic stasis. The story wasn’t true—but it wasn’t entirely farfetched, either.

In the late 1960s and well into the following decade, sufferers of incurable illnesses pinned their hopes on a novel scheme: If they had their mortal remains preserved in a chamber of liquid nitrogen (roughly -320° F), doctors of the future would be able to resurrect them, cure their maladies, then send them strolling into the happily ever after.

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