Peter Thiel wants to be frozen after death and later revived

The tech investor and billionaire Peter Thielwho too Head of Austria’s ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz is, has commented on plans for his death. means Cryostasis Thiel wants to be frozen in order to be revived later as soon as the technology is ready.

The entrepreneur explained that last week in the Podcast Honestly with Bari Weiss. When asked if he signed up people he loves for it as well, he replies, “I don’t necessarily expect it to work.”

Thiel describes it as “ideologisches Statement”. “But I think that’s something we should try,” said the 55-year-old. Humanity should either conquer death, or at least find out why it’s impossible, he said PayPal-Founder.

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It is not the first time that Thiel has expressed such plans. Already 2014 he said in an interview with the Telegraphthat he is at the cryogenics provider alcor has registered. This is not a company, but a non-profit foundation. Alcor does not guarantee that freezing actually works. We want to leave that to the doctors of the future. The scenarios of what the “revival” should look like are also left open. There is also talk of transplanting only parts of the body or even just the brain into a robot.

If you want to do the same as Thiel, you have to reckon with considerable costs for freezing. Freezing an entire body currently beats at least 200.000 Dollar to book. Only the brain you can already order 80.000 Dollar to conserve. Most of the approximately 1,400 customers finance this with life insurance, as was the case at the end of last year in a Reuters Report about Alcor was called.