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The Tech Messiahs Who Want to Deliver Us from Death
Kai Micah Mills with a series of cryogenic storage chambers he has in the garage at his home in Millcreek, Utah. (Spenser Heaps for The Free Press)
They see death as a software error—and they have a plan for fixing it. But should they?
By Suzy Weiss
05.24.23 — Culture and Ideas
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Kai Micah Mills is going to freeze his parents. 

“They’re both going to be cryopreserved, regardless of their wishes,” Mills told me. 

Don’t worry, he’s told them. “Even my dad has been pretty open to it. Most Mormons are really just transhumanists.” 

Transhumanists believe that cutting-edge technologies can help us augment our minds and our bodies to tran…

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a reporter and producer for The Free Press. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
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