Most scientists also scoffed at Mr. Ettinger’s vision, but his manifesto came as the world was adjusting to the atomic bomb, Sputnik’s robotic spacecraft and a host of other sci-fi-seeming technologies. To many at the time, Mr. Ettinger’s optimism seemed appropriate.

-Robert Ettinger, founder of the cryonics movement died July 23rd at 92.

He believed death was for the unimaginative and unprepared.

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