If you should meet your demise while reading this book (granted, that’s cosmically and statistically unlikely), you could always try cryonics out for yourself, of course. Try, by choice, something that Han Solo had no choice in trying. Cryonics is big business, but it isn’t cheap. It can cost up to $150,000 to have a whole-body preservation. For more frugal futurists, you can preserve just your brain for a cool fifty thousand dollars—an option known as neurosuspension. Keep your fingers crossed that, should you opt for this brain treatment, vitrification technology will come up with a way to
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