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The Executive Who Sells Cryonics to the Ultra-Wealthy Chasing Immortality

James Arrowood is pitching cryonics to billionaires while critics question whether it’s science or spectacle.

Executives often entertain wealthy clients, but James Arrowood’s conversations with them revolve around life, death and what comes after. As CEO of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based nonprofit focused on cryonics—the practice of freezing human bodies, heads and even pets in hopes that future generations might one day revive them—he oversees a membership of about 1,600 people paying upwards of $100 a month, plus roughly $220,000 for whole-body preservation or $80,000 for neuropreservation (to freeze just the head), a group he says includes around 10 percent of the world’s 50 richest people.

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“I’m talking to billionaires when they’re dying,” he told Observer. “None of them care about their bank balance, they don’t even know how much money they have… It’s about relationships, and it’s about their legacy.”

The quest to outrun death is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where billions have been poured into anti-aging and life-extension startups.........

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