216 – On Dying (And Cryonics)

Rachel Zuber joins us to talk about hospice work, dying in America, and why she’s less optimistic about cryonics now.



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All the Living and the Dead

Caitlin Doughty on YouTube

CI cryonics case reports

Places of Death in the US

Prev Episodes – Cryonics pt 1 and pt 2 w Robert McIntyre, and Cryo with Rudi Hoffman

Bentham’s Bulldog on the Best Argument and also Miracles??

Skeptoid #247 on The “Miracle” of Calanda

0:00:17 – Dying and Cryonics

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