Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Is this the $200,000 ticket to cheating death?
Hibernation is a natural process for animals to survive cold or food scarcity. It might be used for people during a long space trip in the future. Cryonics is the process of storing a dead body by freezing it until science has advanced to bring that person back to life. A German cryonics start-up is now offering the service to newly dead persons with diseases for a second life in the future when medical technologies advance to the level that cures the diseases. In this service, once a paid customer is pronounced dead, his or her body is moved to the company’s ambulance to cool the body to sub-zero temperatures and supplied with cryoprotective fluid to prevent water from becoming ice crystals and destroying the tissue. Then the body is cooled down to -196C to preserve for indefinite timeframes. Even though there is no proof that complex organisms of human brain structures can be restored safely and functionally, a few dead people and pets have already been cryopreserved, and nearly 700 people have signed up for the $200,000 service. How different is awakening from cryonics compared with anesthesia or hibernation?
Read the article and learn about what the cryonics service is about.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250115-cryonics-the-start-up-that-wants-to-freeze-you-in-suspended-animation
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