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Liquid nitrogen tanks in Scott, Arizona contain the bodies of 200 people who paid for cryogenization to the company Alcor Life Extension Foundation with the aim of “revival in the future”.
The “patients,” as the company calls them, were terminally ill with cancer, ALS, and other currently untreatable diseases, who, by keeping their bodies, hope to come back to life when technology and science allow.
rise from the dead
Alcor Life Extension Foundation claims to be the world leader cryonicsthe preservation of human bodies at very low temperatures, since medicine can do nothing for them.
His youngest patient is a Thai girl with brain cancer who was frozen in 2015 at just 2 years old. “Her parents were doctors, she had several brain surgeries, and, unfortunately, nothing helped. So they contacted us,” said Max Mohr, CEO of Alcor.
For treatment, the company starts working after the death of a person. They remove internal fluids, including blood, and add chemicals to prevent ice crystals from forming. The bodies are then placed in tanks of liquid nitrogen to wait for the years to pass.
To date, there is no technology or science to resuscitate a “vitrified” patient, a term they want to call their technique.
“We don’t want to freeze patients. We want to vitrify them… And the reason is that as soon as it cools down to very low temperatures, the solution, instead of crystallizing, becomes thicker and thicker, and it looks like a glassy block. which holds all the cells in place without any internal structure and therefore no damage,” Mohr said.
“And once we get to that point, the body becomes really solid and absolutely nothing happens in it. It has no biochemical activity, certainly no neurological activity. So at this point it doesn’t matter if you wait a day or 100 years.” , you will be the same as at the beginning.”
He said many medical professionals disagree Reuters Arthur Kaplan, Head of Medical Ethics at NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine.
“The idea of freezing us in the future is pretty science fiction and naive,” he said. “The only group that is excited about this possibility is people who specialize in studying the distant future, or people who are interested in you paying money for it.”
How much does it cost to be an Alcor Life Extension patient?
According to the publication, the minimum cost is $200,000 for the body and $80,000 for the brain alone.
Most of Alcor’s nearly 1,400 living “members” pay, Mohr said, making the company the beneficiary of value-equivalent life insurance policies.
More’s wife, Natasha Vita-More, likens the process to a journey into the future.
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