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The Shady World of Cryonics: Missing Heads, Bank Robbers and an Italian Funeral Mogul

2022/4/19
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主持著名true crime播客《Crime Junkie》的播音员和创始人。
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Peter Ward: 本书探讨了冷冻人体技术领域中的各种犯罪活动，包括俄罗斯CryoRus公司两位创始人之间的内斗、冷冻头部盗窃案以及意大利殡葬业巨头Filippo Polistena的被捕。这些事件揭示了该领域存在的混乱和缺乏监管，以及人们对永生的渴望如何被不法分子利用。作者详细描述了Robert Nelson等人物的经历，以及他们如何利用冷冻人体技术进行诈骗和欺诈。他还分析了该领域中存在的伦理和法律问题，以及人们对永生的不同看法。 Sean Williams: 作为播客主持人，Sean Williams与Peter Ward讨论了冷冻人体技术领域的犯罪活动，以及该领域中存在的各种奇闻轶事。他表达了对该领域中存在的诈骗和欺诈行为的担忧，并对人们对永生的盲目追求提出了质疑。他与Peter Ward一起探讨了Robert Nelson、Mike Darwin等人物的经历，以及他们如何参与到冷冻人体技术领域的犯罪活动中。

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The episode introduces the shady world of cryonics, involving hucksters, crooks, and a warring Russian couple who employed the services of an Italian funeral magnate.

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We're joined by journalist and writer Peter Ward, whose upcoming book The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever is out this week. Since the times of Gilgamesh, humans have dreamed of living forever. Since the 1960s, when the son of a bank-robbing mobster froze a psychologist (then lost him), cryonics has been touted as a way to be reanimated in decades, or centuries, from now. Except that, as you might expect, cryonics is a shady world populated by hucksters, crooks and, in one, crazy case, a warring Russian couple who employed the services of a Calabrian funeral magnate. Sounds fishy? It is.

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