Alcor’s patient-care bay, where bodies are cryopreserved at -196C (-321F) in specialized containers called dewars. A storage pod that can hold 10 cryopreserved heads. A kit used by Alcor responders.

When an Alcor member signs up, they agree to pay either $200,000 for their entire body, or $80,000 for just their head to be preserved. More said, "This stage is kind of like donating organs.

A lab is holding the bodies and heads of 200 people in the hope that they can be brought to life in the future. The Alcor Life Extension Foundation offers the hope that science and technology will … ...

He “demanded and was refused the head for autopsy” and Alcor staff were handcuffed, detained, pursued, but eventually exonerated. An out-of-court settlement of around $90,000 was awarded to ...

Scottsdale-Based Alcor Wins Court Battle to Dig Up Dead Guy So Head Can be Frozen About a year ago, then 81-year-old Orville Richardson kicked the bucket in Iowa and was buried by his family near ...

People who sign up for Alcor’s services pay a yearly membership fee of about $770. When it comes time to actually preserve a person the cost ranges from $80,000 to preserve just the brain up to ...

Alcor stores human bodies and severed heads in liquid nitrogen in the hope that someday science will bring the dead to life. Upon Williams’ death in July 2002, his son, John Henry Williams, had ...