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Death

Ground Zero

Humans

Who Owns the Dead? The atrocity of 9/11 casts a long shadow

The $80 million forensic investigation after New York’s terrorist attacks identified many victims. But with 1113 remains unidentified, a new book outlines the many issues outstanding

Culture
price tag

Health

What are you worth? How we calculate the value of a life

Features
brain slicing

Humans

Immortalising human brains at the world’s largest brain bank

Regulars
Zoltan Istvan, head and shoulders, pictured in black and white with clouds in the background. He's white, square-jawed and arrogant-looking

Humans

Meet the US presidential candidate campaigning for immortality

Opinion
mummified bug

Environment

See the creepy-crawly stowaways in a 3000-year-old loaf of bread

Regulars
A woman jogging along a road

Health

Desk job death risk is eliminated by an hour’s walk or cycle

News
man holding patient's hand

Health

Should people who are not terminally ill have the right to die?

News

Humans

Smarter police interviews could help reduce racial tension

News

Health

A visual tour of the weird world of the cryogenically frozen

Features
Murray Ballard, from the book 'The Prospect of Immortality'

Health

9 things you need to know about cryogenically freezing your body

Fancy freezing your body after death? This is what you’re dying to know about what it involves, what it costs and the chances of reanimation

Features

Humans

Why I signed up to have my head cryogenically frozen

Features

Health

Ark of the immortals: The future-proof plan to freeze out death

Features

Humans

Some people choose to be frozen at death. Here’s how it happens

Features

Humans

I want to put your death on ice so that you can live again

Features