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Please Don’t Call the Customers Dead

13 Feb 05 ~ FmH
“The live-in customers at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation here reside in eight 10-foot-high steel tanks filled with liquid nitrogen. They are incapable of breathing, thinking, walking, riding a bike or scratching an itch. But don’t refer to them as deceased.” (New York Times )

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