Thousands of people are signed up to be frozen after they die in the hopes that they can wake up in the future.
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Cryonics is the process of deep-freezing human remains in the hope that a person can be resuscitated in the future.
Cryonics Institute charges $28,000 for a body to be stored indefinitely, while competitor Alcor reportedly charges $200,000.
See how the process of cryonics works and where bodies are stored.
Throughout history, people have tried to find ways to cheat death, but lately, it’s a topic that seems to be on the minds of many of Silicon Valley’s super-rich.Silicon Valley billionaires are interested in extending life.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel are some of the tech elite who have invested millions of dollars in trying to figure out how to extend their lives.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos back companies focused on life extension.
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Cryonics is a process that many people believe could help extend human life. It involves deep-freezing human remains after a person dies in the hopes that one day that person could be revived in the future.Science fiction cryogenics set appearing in a 1975 episode of ABC’s TV series “The Wide World of Mystery”
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No one has ever been resuscitated from cryonic suspension, and there is currently no technology to revive someone who is kept in a frozen chamber.Interior of Cryonics Institute’s facility in Michigan.
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Many people think cryonic preservation involves simply freezing a person’s body, but the process is more complicated than that.Dry ice is used to store the bodies as they are transported to the facility.
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According to Dennis Kowalski, the president of the Cryonics Institute, the deep-freezing process is done in a couple of steps.Dennis Kowalski has signed up to be preserved in a chamber that reaches freezing temperatures after death.
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Preservation begins after a person is declared legally dead. According to Kowalski, the sooner the process begins, the better the chance of preserving the body.A specialized ambulance for transporting bodies undergoing cryopreservation was shown at a conference in Madrid in November 2022.
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First, the body is given blood thinners to prevent clotting and an antacid for stomach acids. At Cryonics Institute, a cryonics specialist, whom they call a “funeral director,” performs most of the procedures.Cryonics Institute standby kit.
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Then, the goal is to remove as much heat from the body as possible in order to preserve it. Kowalski said the specialist will attach an automatic CPR device to the body to keep blood flowing, and then it is placed in an ice bath to cool down.An automatic CPR machine is attached to a body while on standby.
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In the early days of cryonics, bodies were placed into a “straight freeze,” meaning they were simply frozen after death. However, that may cause internal damage due to ice crystal formation.Robert Ettinger is known to be …read more
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