Cryonic Suspension

The Invincible Man - washingtonpost.com:

Dodging death has long been a dream. Our earliest recorded legend is that of Gilgamesh, who finds and loses the secret of immortality. The Greek goddess Eos prevails on Zeus to allow her human lover Tithonus to live eternally, forgetting, unfortunately, to ask that he also not become aged and frail. He winds up such a dried husk she turns him into a grasshopper. ad_icon In "It Ain't Necessarily So," Ira Gershwin writes: Methus'lah lived nine hundred years...