If dying, and having to stay dead, is a can you want to kick down the road indefinitely, there are many ways to try to go about it. Cryogenics is fine if you’re a tardigrade, because—if you’re a tardigrade—you can apparently awaken after 24,000 years in the deep freeze without having lost a step. (Not technically a step: these tough little bdelloid rotifers are microscopic creatures, so strolling doesn’t really enter the picture.)
But the odds of coming back to life forever are much longer for non-tardigrades, such as Ted Williams and the other resident members of Alcor, the cryonics facility in Scottsdale, Arizona. Walt Disney, by the way, is not among them—that’s an urban myth; he’s buried at Forest Lawn in Glendale. No, when immortality is your goal, it’s far more sensible simply not to expire in the first place.
