Peter Thiel, who is a venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal, is on a mission to cure the most dire human shortcoming of them all – death.

Regarding the process of dying, Thiel is adamant to change the perception that death is an inevitability, and believes there’s a new way to look at kicking-the-bucket.

You can accept it, you can deny it or you can fight it. I think our society is dominated by people who are into denial or acceptance, and I prefer to fight it.

Thiel’s “immortality project” aims to use cryogenic freezing to prolong life, and he whole-hardheartedly backs the idea.

His belief is such that he has signed up with Alcor, the leading company in the field of cryogenics, to be deep-frozen at the time of his death – as much as an ‘ideological statement’, he says, as in any expectation of being thawed out any time in the near future. ‘In telling you that I’ve signed up for it [cryogenics], there’s always this reaction that it’s really crazy, it’s disturbing. But my take on it is it’s only disturbing because it challenges our complacency.’

Read the interesting interview with Peter Thiel on the Telegraph.