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World Service,3 mins

Inside Europe's only cryonics company

Newshour

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The Russian town of Sergiev Posad is home to Europe's only cryonics company - the science of preserving dead bodies in the hope of bringing them back to life. Its co-owner Danila Medvedev explains why immortality seems both "desirable and possible" to some Russians. (Photo: Danila Medvedev - co-owner of Europe's only cryonics company CryoRus in the Russian town of Sergiev Posad. Credit: Michael Innes, BBC)

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