Mike Darwin was president of a cryonics company called Alcor Life Extension Foundation Sipa/Shutterstock
Wondery
FROM his childhood, Laurence Pilgeram was preoccupied with death. He would vividly imagine his parents in their caskets, wondering why people had to die. Pilgeram went on to build a lab on the family farm in Montana and experimented on guinea pigs, injecting bovine growth hormone into their pituitary glands to see if he could stop ageing and dying. “He was just so afraid of death,” his brother …
