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A tech start-up is giving people the option to cryogenically freeze their bodies in the hope that they might be able to be resurrected one day in the distant future.
Berlin-based Tomorrow Biocharges an exorbitant fee of $222,603 plus a $55 monthly membership fee to freeze bodies or body parts.
The brain alone costs $83,473.
“Personally, I believe that in my lifetime (I’m 40 years old now) we will witness the safe cryopreservation and reanimation of complex organisms,” says co-founder Fernando Azevedo Pinheiro. He told the Daily Mail.
“For some people, the fear of death is their primary motivation. Cryonics gives them hope, peace of mind and the possibility of extending their life.”
According to the company, six people and five pets have experienced the Big Chill so far, and there is a waiting list of 650 people, with an average age of 36.
“I don’t expect any of them to die anytime soon,” he told the Daily Mail.
How does it work? Tomorrow Bio offers what it calls “in situ cryopreservation,” using “a modified ambulance that acts as a mobile operating room to begin the cryopreservation process immediately after the patient is declared legally dead.”
The company claims to be the only company in the world to do so.
Pinheiro added that the bodies’ bodily fluids are replaced with “basically medical-grade antifreeze” to prevent irreversible cold damage. The bodies are then cooled to around minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit over a little over a week before being placed in long steel containers filled with liquid nitrogen for long-term preservation.
If the patient is successfully revived after Captain America’s surgery and the full investment wasn’t spent on treatment, the remaining money will be refunded.
Tomorrow’s Bio Give examples of success A similar treatment to protect the kidneys of rabbits.
The company has storage facilities across Europe, including Berlin and Amsterdam, and Tomorrow Bio says it will soon open a satellite location in New York.
But co-founder Pinheiro said many regulars have their eyes set on the afterlife.
“Many of our guests are fascinated by the possibilities of future technologies and experiences, such as space travel.”
