Mother Melters | 1

Frozen Head

Wondery

Exhibit C, True Crime, Society & Culture

3.4 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Two dead bodies. Two ordinary deaths… or so it seems. But these two cases, decades apart, will pit cryonicists against mother melters.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can binge all seven episodes of Frozen Head ad-free.
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0:15.7	Ash. Yes, Elena.
0:18.1	What's going to happen to you when you die?
0:22.8	I am going to have my ashes scattered somewhere beautiful. I don't really know quite where yet, but somewhere beautiful. Okay, I love that
0:29.5	for you. Thanks. I want a big crazy lady mausoleum. But what I actually meant was what happens to you after you die. Oh, you mean the big question. Like,
0:43.3	is there some part of me that stays around? Right. Like when you die, are you gone or? Oh, like you mean,
0:50.5	am I going to haunt you? Yeah, because I am definitely going to haunt you.
0:54.8	Oh, I know.
0:55.7	I know.
0:57.2	But jokes aside, we're all going to die.
1:00.9	And that question of what happens to us after, it's the greatest mystery of all.
1:05.8	But it can also be the question that sometimes takes over what we do with the life we're given.
1:13.7	Which brings us to the story of a 90-year-old man named Lawrence Pilgrim, laying face down in the grass outside his condo.
1:22.9	Ooh, story time.
1:27.6	Friday, April 10th, 2015
1:30.5	began like any other day
1:32.6	in Encina Royale,
1:34.3	a retirement community
1:35.6	outside of Santa Barbara, California.
1:39.1	The residents walked their dogs
1:40.9	and tended their gardens.
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