Calm down!
A high-tech startup is giving people the chance to cryogenically freeze their corpses in the hope that they could be resurrected one day in the distant future.
Tomorrow Bio, a Berlin-based company, is paying a pretty penny — $222,603 plus a $55 monthly membership fee — to put bodies and body parts on ice.
The brain alone costs $83,473.
“Personally, I believe that within my lifetime – I’m currently 40 years old – we can witness the safe cryopreservation and resuscitation of complex organisms,” co-founder Fernando Azevedo Pinheiro told the Daily Mail.
“For some, the main motivation is the fear of death. Cryopreservation offers them hope and a sense of security, offering a possible way to extend their lives.”
So far, the company claims six people and five pets have caught the cold – and there are 650 people on the waiting list with an average age of 36.
“None of them expect to die soon,” he told the Daily Mail.
How does it work? Tomorrow Bio offers what they call “in-field cryoprotection” in which they “start the cryopreservation process immediately after a patient is declared legally dead, using our refurbished ambulances, which function as mobile surgical rooms.”
The company claims to be the only one worldwide to do so.
Pinheiro added that a cadaver’s body fluids are replaced by “essentially medical-grade antifreeze” to protect against irreversible cold damage. Temperatures are lowered to about minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit for just over a week before the body is stored in a tall steel container containing liquid nitrogen for long-term storage.
If a person is successfully revived after the Captain America procedure and their investment has not been fully used in treatment, they get the money left behind.
Tomorrow Bio cites a successful example of similar treatments to preserve a rabbit’s kidney.
The company has storage facilities across Europe, including Berlin and Amsterdam. Soon, NYC will also have a satellite location, according to Tomorrow Bio.
But, according to co-founder Pinheiro, many customers have their sights set on beyond it.
“Many customers are fascinated by the possibilities of future technologies and experiences, such as space travel.”
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