Peter Thiel says he'll be frozen after death, but doubts it works

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Billionaire Peter Thiel says he's signed up to be frozen and preserved when he dies so people can revive him in the future — if the tech even works

He also revealed his after-death plans in a series of quickfire questions that Weiss asked him at the end of their discussion."We haven't even tried. We should either conquer death or at least figure out why it's impossible," Thiel said. "Yes," Thiel said."But I think of it more as an ideological statement."

"I don't necessarily expect it to work, but I think it's the sort of thing we're supposed to try to do," Thiel later continued. When Weiss asked Thiel if he arranged for his loved ones to be frozen as well, he said he's"not convinced" the technology works as intended yet.Thiel, a co-founder of Paypal and Facebook's first outside investor, is worth $8.13 billion, according to the

 

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