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If you have a chance to be brought back to life

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hundreds of years in the future, would

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you take it? Wondery new podcast,

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called Frozen Head hosted

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by Ashen Elena from Orbit tell

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the true story of Lauren's Pilgrim.

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He's a lifelong scientist who planned

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for his death his entire life.

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Because for him, death wasn't the ant,

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it was only the beginning. Lawrence's

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dream to be fro in and brought back

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to life in the future, pulls us

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into a cryonics soap opera.

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There's lots of drama with pets grenades,

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family feuds, hall of fame baseball

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legends, and frozen hats. A lot

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of frozen hats. It's a story

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about the desire to avoid death

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The lengths people will go to make that

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a reality and what it means

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to be alive to begin with.

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It's a fresh spring day in Montana.

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But inside modest white ranch

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house, the living room is filled

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with death. There's

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a dead fox, a couple of dead coyotes,

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and deer heads mounted on the wall.

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This is the Pilgrim's home.

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Pilgrim, as in Lawrence

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Pilgrim. The man tried to have his

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wife frozen an Elkor, the very same.

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But this is his son, Kurt's

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house. On this day,

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Kurt's son, Lawrence's grandson,

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Benjamin, is at home when

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he hears something outside. I

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remember the dogs barking when he pulls

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up, the dogs always bark when anybody falls

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into the place. Now, normally,

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the mailman delivers to the mailbox by

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the road. But today, he's

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come all the way up to the front

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door, and he's holding a package.

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He didn't leave it at the door, like what they usually

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do. So I was like, yeah. Well, I'm sure. Something

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needs to be signed for it. So Benjamin

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opens the door. I'm at him and

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I signed for the box. As I'm signed

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for him, I'm looking at the box. It

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was just a regular old cardboard box.

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It's a rectangular shaped box,

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about a foot long and half as wide.

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A little bit bigger than a shoe box. Benjamin

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is used to seeing boxes arrive at the

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house. His dad, Kurt,

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sells tools. But something

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about this one is different. I'm

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thinking this is a pretty small box. It doesn't

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sound like a small tools. Benjamin

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says thank you, and as

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the mailman walks back to his truck.

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Benjamin takes a closer look

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at what's in his hands. I

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believe the markings were extremely

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fragile ashes or

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body remains or something

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of that regard was on the side of it.

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Oh, this is definitely not

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about of tools? No. It's

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not. His dad is out on a

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delivery, but Benjamin decides to

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give him a call. I

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was like, let me at least get him a

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heads up because this sounds like

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something that he may have to deal with. Yeah.

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Like a box of human remains is

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probably something he'll have to deal with.

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I was like, your dad

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was going to be frozen upon his death.

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Is that correct? Fair question. My

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dad said, yes, he was going

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to be gross. Why do you ask?

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I was like, I am holding a box

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that I just signed for that is containing

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someone's ashes.

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