Josh Dean is a journalist based in New York City. One of the founding editors of the late PLAY, the New York Times Sports Magazine, he is also the author of Show Dog (the Charmed Life and Trying Times of a Near-Perfect Purebred), a correspondent for Outside, and a regular contributor to GQ, Popular Science, Men's Journal, Rolling Stone, and Inc.
Thanks to a small but devoted core of true believers and an infusion of Silicon Valley research funds, the once-revered, much-reviled science of cryopreservation may itself be coming back from the dead. Welcome to Alcor, where death is merely a temporary setback.