10.17192/mjr.2010.15.3421 Krüger, Oliver Oliver Krüger The Suspension of Death. The Cryonic Utopia in the Context of the U.S. Funeral Culture Marburg Journal of Religion : Vol 15 No 1 (2010) Philipps-Universität Marburg 2010 Institute for Comparative Cultural Research - Study of Religions and Anthropology 2015-04-28 2015-04-28 en JournalArticle https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/2010/109/3421 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-2010-109-34216 https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.2010.15.1 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/2010/109/3421/3421.png 1612-2941 application/pdf This article outlines the history of cryonics, starting with fictional novels and movies and the actual formation of the cryonic movement in the 1960s. Cryonics has been considered – by its advocates – to overcome religion by offering a technological way of immortality. Since cryonics never gained serious attention outside the United States it is promising to ask for the specific frame of American funeral culture as a condition for the emergence (and the limitations) of cryonics. 1612-2941 Marburg Journal of Religion Vol 15 No 1 (2010)