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**Two thousand people have signed up to be frozen after death, in the hope that medical science will one day revive them.
Murray Ballard visited cryonics centres around the world to photograph the industry at work.**
CRYOSTATS, CRYONICS INSTITUTE, DETROIT (above)
Cryostats -- vessels that maintain cryogenic temperatures -- can store up to six patients in liquid nitrogen. The Cryonics Institute has 103 humans and 76 pets in storage. "I'm surprised that people don't know much about cryonics," Ballard says. "Apart from thinking that Walt Disney had his head frozen. But that's an urban myth -- there's no evidence that it happened."
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