Somewhere in the Skies - Wondery Presents: Frozen Head

Episode Date: December 21, 2022

When 90-year-old Laurence Pilgeram drops dead on the sidewalk outside his condo, you might think that’s the end of his story. But, really, it’s just the beginning. Because Laurence and others like him have signed up to be frozen and brought back to life in the future. And that belief will pull multiple generations of the Pilgeram family into a cryonics soap opera filled with dead pets, gold coins, grenades, fist fights, mysterious packages, family feuds, Hall of Fame baseball legends, and frozen heads — lots of frozen heads. From Wondery, comes a story about life, death, and what comes next. Follow Frozen Head on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.   Hosted by Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart from the hit show Morbid. You can binge the entire series early and ad-free right now by subscribing to Wondery+ in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery App. Listen to Frozen Head: https://wondery.app.link/frozenhead-sits Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/somewhere-in-the-skies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Pluto TV, stream now, pay never. Hello, listeners of Somewhere in the Skies. It's your host, Ryan Sprague. And I've got a question for you. If you had the chance to be brought back to life hundreds of years in the future, would you take it? Lawrence Pilgrim, a lifelong scientist, planned for death his entire life. Because for him, death wasn't the end. It was just the beginning.

Lawrence's dream to be frozen and brought back to life in the future, pulls us into a cryonics soap opera filled with dead pets, grenades, family feuds, Hall of Fame baseball legends, and Frozen Heads. Lots of Frozen Heads. It's a story about the desire to avoid death. The lengths people will go to make that reality and what it means to be alive to begin with. Frozen Head, Wondry's new podcast, Hosted by Morbids Ash and Elena,

tells the story of a man obsessed with immortality, and the lengths he'll go to bring his wife with him against her wishes, tearing their family apart in the process. I'm about to play you the trailer for Frozen Head. While you're listening, follow Frozen Head wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge all six episodes ad-free by subscribing to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app. Yes, Elena.

What's going to happen to you when you die? I am going to have my ashes scattered somewhere beautiful. Okay, I love that for you. Thanks. But what I actually meant was, what happens to you after you die? Oh, you mean the big question. Right.

Like when you die, are you gone or... Oh, like you mean, am I going to haunt you? Yeah. because I am definitely going to haunt you. Oh, I know. I know. Well, it's a question that Lawrence Pilgrim spent his life thinking about, right up until April 10th, 2015, when he dropped dead on the sidewalk.

He was around 90, so it's not a super huge shock. There was no foul play, nothing unusual at the scene. It was just a natural death. Mine is the face plant on concrete and grass. it's pretty much the best kind of death you could hope for. 90 long, successful years, and then boom, you're dead. Except that's not how Lawrence saw it. For Lawrence, death was not the end.

This was just the beginning. And the real shocks were still to come. From Wondery, the makers of Over My Dead Body and the Shrink Next Door, comes a new series about a lifelong search for answers. He was just kind of like the mad scientist. Why do we get old and die, and what can we do to reverse that? For second chances. That was his goal to have his whole body preserved and sometime in the future brought back.

He had asked her just sort of out of the blue, what do you think of cryonics? And the lengths people go to get them. And there are turtles, grenades, human antifreeze, gold coins, and frozen heads. Lots of frozen heads. We can see that there's a body in there and immediately see that the body has no head. They wanted me to take the patients out of liquid nitrogen and show them their heads and bodies. How could you be so cold as to just want to use her as one of your science experiments? I'm Ash, and I'm Elena.

We host a show called Morbid. Normally we focus on what happens in the lead-up to death. But this time, it's about what happens next. Follow Frozen Head on Amazon music or wherever you got your podcasts. You can binge the entire series early and ad-free by subscribing to Wonderie Plus in Apple Podcasts or The Wonderly app. People say, well, dead is dead. Well, it's a lot more complex than that. You just heard the trailer for Frozen Head. Binge all six episodes right now, add-free by subscribing to Wondry Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondry app.