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Alcor Cryogenics

After Death, The Big Chill

The business of cryopreservation — storing bodies at deep freeze (minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit) until well into the future — got a lot more complicated during the pandemic.

As it turns out, the pandemic that has affected billions of lives around the world has also had an impact on the nonliving.

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