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Added on the 20/02/2016 01:44:15 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Funeral services for best-selling Italian author Umberto Eco are held in Milan. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)
Scottish author D.J. MacLennan has arranged to have his head preserved at an ultra-low temperature as part of the cryonics procedure, with the intent to be restored to life if and when technology becomes advanced enough. Following his death, his head will be transported to a facility in the Arizona desert. Advances in cryonic sciences could enable organs to be stored in conditions suitable for transplant operations.
Funeral services are held for best-selling Italian author Umberto Eco who wrote "The Name of the Rose." Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Italian film director, Ettore Scola, whose Oscar-nominated films chronicled the growing pains, class divisions and frustrated idealisms of 20th century Italy, has died at the age of 84, his family said. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
Best-sellling novelist Jackie Collins has died from breast cancer at the age of 77. Paul Chapman reports.
Discworld-style tweet announces death of British author Terry Pratchett at the age of 66. Paul Chapman reports.