Billionaire Peter Thiel is one of thousands due to be cryogenically frozen after they die — inside the industry selling life after death

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Dr. Jerry Lemler, former president and CEO of Alcor Life Extension Foundation, stands in the Patient Care Bay area where the heads and bodies of 49 individuals are being held in cold storage suspension, at the company's headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona, July 12, 2002.
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Pet owners will freeze their dying animals to one day bring them back to life. Billionaire Peter Thiel is backing the technology to make it happen.

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Kai Micah Mills, wearing protective gear for handling cryonics equipment, flashes a thumbs up in a selfie.
Kai Micah Mills, wearing protective gear for handling cryonics equipment, flashes a thumbs up in a selfie.

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It's not just the uber-rich freezing their brains and bodies when they die. An HBO show visited a conference filled with everyday people excited to do it.

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Alcor co-founder Linda Chamberlain talks about cryonics to AZ Central.
Alcor co-founder Linda Chamberlain, talks about cryonics to AZ Central.

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See inside a facility that freezes people and pets after they die and stores their preserved remains upside down in cryostat chambers

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Automatic CPR machine is attached to a body while on standby.
Thousands of people are signed up to be frozen after they die in the hopes that they can wake up in the future.

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My family and I are going to pay $28K each to freeze our bodies in liquid nitrogen tanks after we die. We hope to wake up in the future.

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Dennis Kowalski of the Cryonics Institute
Dennis Kowalski has signed up to be preserved in a chamber that reaches freezing temperatures after death.

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