You will die. That’s why your life is worth living

What does the tech elite offer? The immortality grift. But there’s another way to look at our previous time on Earth

Ted “the Kid” Williams was perhaps one of the greatest hitters baseball has ever seen. He played for the Boston Red Sox for nearly 20 years. The Kid was like a god from another era until his death in 2002, at 83.

His two younger children had his body carted off by private jet to Alcor Life Extension Foundation, a cryonics facility in Scottsdale, Arizona. There, his head was severed from his body in a process called neuroseparation, thought to increase the quick-freeze preservation of the brain. His head and body were placed in stainless steel nitrogen tanks.