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If you had the chance to be brought
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back to life, hundreds of years in
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the future, would you take it? Wondery
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newest podcast, Frozen Head, hosted
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by Ash and Elena of the hit show morbid,
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tells the true story of Lawrence
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Pilgrim, a lifelong scientist who
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planned for death his entire life.
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Because for him, death wasn't the end.
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It was just the beginning. Lawrence's
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dream to be frozen and brought back
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to life in the future pulls us into
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a cryonics soap opera filled
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with dead pets, grenades, family
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feuds, hall of fame baseball legends,
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and frozen heads. Lots
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of frozen heads. It's a story about
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the desire to avoid death. The lengths
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people will go to to make that a reality.
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And what it means to be alive to
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begin with. I'm about to play a clip
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It's a fresh spring day in Montana.
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But inside a modest white ranch house,
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the living room is filled with death.
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There's a dead fox, a couple of
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dead coyotes, and deer heads
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mounted on the wall. This
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is the Pilgrim's home. Pilgrim,
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as in Lawrence Pilgrim.
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The man who tried to have his wife frozen in
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Alcor, the very same. But
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this is his son, Kurt's house.
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On this day, Kurt's son, Lawrence's
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grandson,
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Benjamin, is at home when
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he hears something OutsIDE.
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I remember the dogs barking. When he
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pulled up,
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the dogs always bark when anybody pulls into
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the place. Now, normally, the
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mailman delivers to the mailbox by
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the road. But today, he's
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come all the way up to the front
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door, and he's holding a package.
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They don't leave it at the door, like, what they use to
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do. So I was like, yeah. Well, I'm sure it's just something
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needs to be signed for it. So Benjamin
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opens the
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door. I'm at him and I signed for
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the box. As I'm signed for, I'm looking
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at the box. It was
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just a regular old cardboard box. It's
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a rectangular shaped box. About
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a foot long and half as wide.
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A little bit bigger than a shoe box. Benjamin
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is used to seeing boxes arrive at the
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house. His dad, Kurt,
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sells
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tools. But about this
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one is different. I'm thinking this
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is a pretty small box. It doesn't sound like
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a small tools.
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Benjamin says thank you, and
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as the mailman walks back to his truck,
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Benjamin takes a closer look
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at what's in his hands.
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I believe the markings were extremely
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fragile ashes or
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body remains or something
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of that regard was on the side of
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it.
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Oh, this is not
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a box of tools. No. It's
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not. His dad is out on a
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delivery, but Benjamin decides to
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give him a call.
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I was like, let me at least give
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him a heads up because this sounds
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like something that he may have
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to deal with.
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Yeah. Like a box of human remains
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is probably something he'll have to deal
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with. I was like, your
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dad was going to be frozen upon
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his death. Is that correct? Fair question.
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My dad said, yes, he was going
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to be frozen. Why do you ask?
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I was
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like, I am holding a box
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that I just signed for that is containing
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someone's ashes. Hey,
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