In Arizona, the bodies of almost 200 people they find each other frozensince they underwent a process by which they are waiting for the right moment to to revive.
According to the Reuters agency, the Alcor Life Extension Foundationwhich is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizonamaintains frozen a total of 199 human heads and bodies.
The bodies stored in tanks were subjected to a cryogenic procedure to preserve the remains waiting for the right time for them to revive.
Frozen people are waiting to revive
According to the foundation itself, the people waiting for the right moment to to revivesince they are about lifeless remains, They are frozen in liquid nitrogen.
The plan, it is indicated, contemplates that in the future science reach a point where you have the ability for the people who have diedcould be revived.
And it is that the information of the same company that offers the “service”, the people were terminal cancer patients and other diseases that currently have no cure.
What is the process for freezing a person?
About the process to preserve the bodies frozen in liquid nitrogenthe foundation explains that it starts when people are officially declared dead.
Max More, executive director of Alcor, explained that blood and other fluids are removed from the bodies, after which they are replaced by chemicals that prevent the formation of ice crystals.
Subsequently, the remains of the people are vitrified at extremely cold temperatures with liquid nitrogen and placed in tanks in the facilities of Arizona.
Finally, More pointed out that the bodies of people remain there “for as long as it takes for technology to catch up” and they can revive.
How much does it cost to freeze a person?
Over the costs to subject the “patients” to the process of freezingthose who want to keep their entire body must pay 200 thousand dollars, that is, more than 4 million pesos.
However, there is a cheaper option, since you can choose to put just the brain in the tanks, a process that costs 80 thousand dollars, more than one million 600 thousand pesos.
The process has generated critics by the medical community, as specialists warn that it is a “naive” concept which is based on ideas from science fiction.
In the same way, they point out that it profits from the desire of desperate relatives who spend large amounts of money to bet on projects that there is no certainty.
