This weekend my friend and I attended Frozen Dead Guy Days , Nederland's annual event celebrating Grandpa Bredo, a cryogenically frozen man stored in a shed near the town. With activities like the Coffin Race, Polar Plunge, and Parade of Hearses, it’s a weird, but wonderful way to end the short days of winter and head into the melting snows of spring.

In case you’re considering having a chance at life in the future…

The company Alcor will chill recently deceased individuals to temperatures below 180 degrees Fahrenheit. They charge $150,000 to cryopreserve a whole body and $80,000 for just the head (on the assumption that future science can regenerate bodies with stem cells, etc.) What a deal!