SunstarTV Bureau: This is a huge gamble and idea is pretty out there. But you think about it for a second, just a hundred years back no one thought humans could fly or transfer heart from body to another person. But we do all of that today. So may be freezing yourself until the science can catch-up may not be that crazy after-all.
The impossible could somehow be possible by an organization in Scottsdale, Arizoana named Alcor Life Extension Foundation, which offers people the chance to preserve their body after clinical death in the hopes that they can be revived in the future.
This Alcor developed to preserves the dead bodies from head to toe by slowing lowering their body temperature and storing them in giant vessels of liquid nitrogen, where they will stay for decades at minus 196 C.
In 1972, Alcor was founded by Linda and Fred Chamberlain. The couple met in early 1970 where Linda was in college and Fred was working as a NASA engineer. Both have decided to form an organization that could offer people a second chance at life.
According to Linda’s statement in Nas Daily, “the body I like to have in near future would be non-biological probably a nano-bot swam, a body made up of small nano bot computers that are all stuck together very much like body’s biological cells are stuck together that make up our body right now.”
“My husband, mother and Father-in-law have all been cryopreserved and are in spaces here at ALCOR. Of course when my time comes I will be cryopreserved too,” Linda added.
Moreover she hired scientists with professional PhD holders for his upcoming ideas to preserve body of deceased.
According to Alcor, the best way defined as the human body to preserve through vitrification, rather than freezing. The aim is to replace the water in body with cryoprotectant, kind of medical grade antifreeze, which prevents ice crystals forming and damaging the body’s cells. When the deceased person’s temperature is lowered, the body vitrifies, turning into a glass-like state, rather than freezing.
While Alcor offers full-body cryonic preservation for $220,000, the organization also offers “neuro preservation” for $80,000. In this process, the head is removed from the body (from the collarbone up — what is referred to as the “cephalon”) and cryopreserved on its own. During the procedure, the cephalon is clamped within this box in a steel ring.
