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| | Heaven can wait - [Sunday Herald] |
 | | When an Alcor member passes away, in an ideal situation, a cryo-transport team is nearby waiting to perform a host of procedures when death is finally pronounced, before escorting the body as quickly as possible back to this location where the full cryo-preservation protocols can be initiated in a well-equipped operating theatre. |
 | | Ettinger, now 87, is still alive and waiting to be frozen at the time of his death, but if the science does work, he won’t be lonely: he married twice and has had both his wives, who died in 1987 and 2001, suspended. |
 | | After the injection of the solutions, the patient (or what’s left of him or her) is inverted and placed in a stainless steel can, or in a full-sized, metal, coffin-like container, and moved to the cooling room next door. |
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