Why can't you cryogenically freeze your grandma? Well, in some states you can. But you don't get to do as you please with your dead because a very long legal tradition rejects the notion that family members own the remains of their loved ones. This rule stems from the 17th-century British belief that human souls have the right to reclaim their bodies on Resurrection Day, therefore they can't transfer those rights to their descendants.

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