A lab is holding the bodies and heads of 200 people in the hope that they can be brought to life in the future.
The Alcor Life Extension Foundation offers the hope that science and technology will advance to the stage where the deceased can be brought back to life.
Alcor will freeze a whole body for around $200,000 or the just the head and brain, for $80,000 in a process known as cryonics.
The company is located in Scottsdale Arizona, where the bodies will be stored at deep freeze temperatures for decades or even centuries.
It was founded by Linda and Fred Chamberlain in 1972 after the couple met at a cryonics conference in early 1970.
At the time she was in college and Fred was working as a NASA engineer.
“Our goals were to start an organization that could save people’s lives and give them an opportunity to be restored to health and function,” SAID Linda Chamberlain.
“If we’d known how hard it was going to be, we might not have tried to do it. But once you get started, something about saving lives, you can’t give up.”
Alcor preserves bodies by slowly lowering their temperature and storing them in giant vessels of liquid nitrogen at -196 C.
In a typical procedure, the body is packed in ice and frozen, before the blood is replaced with a ‘cryoprotectant’ solution, to stop ice crystal formation.
Cryonics supporters insist death is a process of deterioration rather than simply the moment when the heart stops
But the industry has long been dismissed as quack science or even fraud.
One of the bodies held by Alcor is that of baby Matheryn Naovaratpong, known as Einz, who died from brain cancer in 2015, just before her third birthday.
Parents Nareerat and Sahatorn, from Thailand, chose to have their late daughter’s brain preserved.
Einz underwent 10 surgeries, 12 rounds of chemo and 20 rounds of radiation, but was unable to beat the cancer.
Realizing there was no hope of curing his daughter, Sahatorn began researching cryonics, in the hopes of convincing his wife that it could offer their daughter a new life in the future.
“This was the way to keep her… we must keep her,” he said in a Netflix documentary Hope Frozen: A Quest To Live Twice.
At first, the whole family was against the idea but Sahatorn spent months persuading them.
“Can we stop the process of dying? Yes. Can you believe that we can stop it? This is what I have to show my family.
“I spent many months trying to persuade my wife before she finally agreed.”
The couple began recording videos for their daughter, to hopefully see in the future.
Meanwhile, a team from Alcor flew to Thailand for when Einz passed away.
For cryonics to be as successful as possible, experts say it’s best to begin the freezing process within 60 seconds of when the heart stops beating.
It meant Einz’s family watched on as her body temperate was lowered in front of them, before her body was frozen and flown to Arizona.
“I told her, come back and be my daughter again. Mummy loves you so much,” said Nareerat.
This story originally appeared on The Sun and cnet was reproduced here with permission.
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Then again,
I hope they all go in now at this age time in their lives and become human popsicles.
THEN EMP THEIR SHIT!
It was quackery in the 1970’s. When God Almighty calls me, then my soul will transmigrate to Heaven, in the blink of an eye. I find solace in my belief.
NO one knows if it will work. No proof, only theory. So, not hinged to reality.
Fv(k!ng elite,….Why can’t they just burn all their money now and die then they can spend all their money in hell!
Once humpty dumptied back they won’t be able to spend their money here because vegetables don’t spend money.
Sorry to be a bearer of bad news, but when a person dies, the eternal soul departs the body (the Silver Cord is cut) and moves to either one of two places. IF the body and/or brain can ever be revived, it won’t be the original person living in it. They are gone. These grieving parents will never have closure about their daughter’s death as long as they believe she’s coming back after thawing. Science thinks they have all the answers but continually dismiss that which they know nothing about… the spiritual side of things. We are NOT ANIMALS as we’ve been taught but eternal beings created with an eternal soul. Money is wasted on cryogenic research and efforts.
I read this. It has nothing to do with being alive.
Man trying to attain eternal life apart from God Almighty.
Only God can give us renewed life through the shed blood of his only begotten son Jesus Christ.
This isn’t going to bring anyone back.