71-year-old became the American "patient" of the Russian cryonics company D. Heiko from California. After her death, at the request of the children, her body was cooled to the temperature of dry ice (-80 ° C). In Moscow, the "ice grandmother" was frozen again to -195 ° C - the temperature of liquid nitrogen. Now her body, along with 35 other “frozen” ones, is waiting in the wings in a sarcophagus on the territory of a cryogenic storage facility near Moscow.
ice mummies
“Many people believed in a successful revival after a flash freeze. famous people- said "AiF" Yuri Pichugin, candidate of chemical sciences, cryobiologist and head of the Russian cryolaboratory. Founder of cryonics, who died in the USA, was frozen in liquid nitrogen Robert Ettinger. It is known that the artist was interested in cryonics Salvador Dali. Wanted to freeze Walt Disney, science fiction Arthur Clark and other "celestials". In the United States today there are already more than 240 cryopatients - dead people who have either their bodies, or heads, or brains frozen to -196 ° C. It is possible that the brain underwent a similar procedure. M. Jackson, who, by the will of his relatives, was not buried with the body.
Over the ocean from those who want to arrange for themselves or their loved ones a "second earthly life» In such an unusual way today there is no end to the end, despite the rather high prices: cryopreservation of the human body costs 40-250 thousand dollars, separately for the head or brain - 80-120 thousand dollars. In Russia, it is possible to cryopreserve much cheaper: entirely for 30 thousand dollars, and partly - for only 10 thousand dollars Although, according to skeptics, the revival of cryonized people, even in the foreseeable future, will become, to put it mildly, problematic.
“Ice crystals break the nervous and circulatory systems, the structure of all tissues changes irreversibly,” AiF explained. Alexander Lavrin, writer, one of the founders of the "Party of the Immortals". - In addition, the strongest physical and chemical changes occur, all components of the human body are destroyed. The Nazis did similar experiments during the war. The experiments were carried out on concentration camp prisoners, who were put into deep freezing with the help of special injections. But they weren't successful. However, there are cases when people, after being in a very severe frost, showed almost no signs of life, but were still alive - blood pulsated under the skin, although in a very condensed state. They managed to return to normal life.
In the "grey zone"
Despite everything, cryobiologists promise their clients success. “The results of studies of the nervous tissue using an electron microscope showed that the main matrix of the cell is preserved after cryopreservation. This means that there are chances to revive the whole organism, albeit with side effects, - convinces Danila Medvedev, futurist, one of the leaders of the cryogenic company. - In the 80s. cryobiologists in the United States and Russia conducted hypothermia experiments on dogs and rats, which were kept for 2.5-4 hours at temperatures below zero and brought to a state of actual death, without blood supply and brain activity.
After "defrosting" the animals behaved quite normally. It has already reached clinical trials of this technology on patients in American hospitals: a person is made “temporarily dead” for an hour and a half, cooling his body in order to take him to the hospital in time in case, for example, of severe blood loss.”
Something similar, by the way, happens in artificial insemination clinics: a significant part of the embryos that are then implanted in women are stored there in liquid nitrogen. Tens and hundreds of thousands of people were born from thawed eggs. Individual body tissues used for transplantation are also cryopreserved.
What kind of people are "frozen" - still alive or already dead? “They seek to cryopreserve people in the so-called “gray zone” between life and final, biological death. From a legal point of view - dead. However, doctors can state brain death, although “in some places” a person is still alive, the cells have not begun to decompose and completely irreversible changes in the body have not occurred, ”explain cryobiologists.
According to the forecasts of cryobiologists, the resurrection of the first "frozen" will occur "already by 2050, and even more likely - by 2100." And those who will be able to live up to this historical moment will see it, respectively.
Life, won the right to cryogenically freeze her body. The girl had to go to court because her parents could not agree on what to do with her remains after death. The news caused a public outcry not only in Britain, but also in Russia. Meanwhile, in our country, more than five dozen people have already been frozen - without noise in the press. They signed treaties in the hope that medicine would someday reach such a level that they would be revived and cured.
51 people have been frozen, and more than 200 contracts have been frozen for the future,” Valeria Udalova, co-founder and CEO of KrioRus, told Life. - A lot of contracts are made before operations. For example, a client says: "My mother with stage 4 cancer is preparing for surgery, we want to cryonize in case of death." But then my mother survives - and we have had 10 such people in a row since April. So the contracts remain signed for the future.
According to Victoria Udalova, about half of those frozen died of cancer.
I think that in 40 years there will already be drugs in the world that can save these people,” she says.
Among the clients are not only Russians, but also citizens of Australia, Holland, Italy, Ukraine and other countries.
Freezing an adult costs $36,000 in our country. Plus, there may be additional costs, such as the transportation of the body.
We have an endless contract, - says Victoria Udalova. - But we believe that neither such prices nor higher ones will still be able to recoup our costs, so we are developing a parallel business. Now we have an IT business, and not just one. In general, we started all this for a great cause, and not for profit.
About 20 private investors are also ready to support the company.
These are quite small investors, they are ready to allocate 50 thousand dollars each - approximately the same amount, - says Victoria. - Now we think how to work with them. Basically, they themselves want to be cryonized in the future, a very small part of them would like to receive some income from cooperation with us in the future. On the whole, we have been growing ourselves almost without investment so far.
As Victoria said, for future revival, "it is best to store a frozen person at minus 130 degrees." But until recently, people were frozen to minus 196 degrees and below. Freezing is done either with the help of liquid nitrogen vapor, or with the help of other special liquids. Now the tanks where the frozen ones are stored look like "huge thermoses".
In the future, these will be rooms where people enter in space suits, and their beautiful friends and relatives lie there, - said Victoria.
The KrioRus company also freezes pets at the request of their owners: dogs, cats, birds and even chinchillas.
Now about 20 animals have been cryonized, their owners loved them very much, - said Victoria.
According to her, most doctors are skeptical about cryofreezing and the possibility of resuscitation.
Among the skeptics are mostly older doctors, and the younger ones are increasingly treated well, she said.
Evidence that it is possible to revive a person whose body was frozen after an officially recorded death is not yet available. However, there is a letter in support of cryofreezing, signed by 69 scientists. O official medicine in exceptional cases, such a method as a deliberate decrease in body temperature.
As previously reported, KrioRus is one of three companies in the world providing full cycle cryofreezing (the other two operate in the USA). According to the SPARK-Interfax database, revenue for 2015 amounted to 2.5 million rubles, net profit - 56 thousand rubles.
And is it legal at all?
"Forget everything you know about life and just open your eyes..."
This is the slogan for the famous film with Tom Cruise "Vanilla Sky". In the film, the hero dies and is placed in a cryocapsule* in which he lies peacefully and has wonderful dreams. In reality, things are a little different than in the movies. You will not be allowed to dream. “You just fall asleep and wake up. For you, time of hundreds of years will fly by like a moment, ”says Maxim Andrakovsky, head of the Crio Life cryofreezing company.
*Cryocapsule - a place for cryopreservation and further preservation of the body until defrosting. Cryonics is the preservation of people, animals or only the brain in a state of deep cooling for subsequent revival and possible cure in the future.
However, no one can guarantee that you will ever wake up. And no one promises that your memories and your personality as a whole will be preserved after the “ice dream”. How can you legally make money by freezing people, and most importantly, why do people do this? And many more questions: how much does it cost to freeze yourself until better times? Where will my body be kept? Can you freeze your beloved dog too? Read on for answers to this and more.
After unsuccessful experiments on frogs, individual human cells and baboons, deep freezing technologies have gone far ahead, and cryofirms have developed and multiplied. Now anyone who wishes can secure eternal life by paying 1.5 million rubles (the price of cryonics at Crio Life as of 08/25/15).
In Russia, more than 134 people (as of 2014) turned to cryonics centers, and 34 of them have already frozen and are waiting in the wings. In the United States, this figure for 2011 was 1832 people, of which 206 people have already been cryonized. It can be assumed that now this figure has increased significantly. What can I say, even Walt Disney wanted to freeze, although then it is not clear whose remains rest in the Forest Lawn cemetery.
It is worth noting that those who want to feel immortality are not very worried about the high price of the procedure, the lack of safe defrosting technology, and the freezing itself, as well as a complete contradiction to traditional burial.
Of the currently existing companies specializing in cryofreezing, Alcor, Trans Time, the Institute of Cryonics and KrioRus stand out. Now a new organization, Crio Life, has entered the market, which has also opened a franchise for those who want to join the business of the future. The cost of such a franchise offer is 150 thousand rubles, and the investment for launching the project varies from 50 to 100 thousand rubles.
However, before opening a business for freezing people, it is worth clarifying some legal points. All of these companies are considered to carry out non-licensed research and development activities and operate as non-profit organizations. As a rule, they all cooperate with scientific laboratories and research centers. In order to conclude franchising agreements, the company creates a limited liability company, on whose behalf agreements are concluded with the franchisee.
Speaking about the legal side of cryonics, one should not forget that the public is skeptical about such a kind of burial and often accuses such companies of fraud. However, in fact, there is no basis for such accusations, if the cryofirm does not show you fake videos and does not tell fictitious stories about the resurrection of people from the cryochamber. Also, the organization should not promise you a 100% rise from the dead, and a magical cure in a specific timeframe (considering the research results at the present time). In order not to regard the actions of a cryocompany as fraud, it should not trick you into signing a contract without justifying its promises.
However, representatives of cryonics companies assure that the clients who contact them are perfectly aware of everything and are aware that they are investing in science, and that the project to revive people is very long-term. The main desire of the "patients" to start new life in a new reality. People come to this desire different reasons: someone could not cope with their life problems, someone passed away too soon, etc. Moreover, to our questions about the legal status of resurrected people, about controversial issues of inheritance and other legal difficulties of yesterday's dead, Maxim Andrakovsky, the head of Crio Life, unequivocally answers that everything has already been thought out and there will be no problems.
In addition to the legal, there is a financial issue. As we have already said, freezing yourself completely in Crio Life costs 1.5 million rubles, in Kriorus human cryopreservation costs 36 thousand dollars, brain freezing is 12 thousand dollars, and the eternal life of your pet will cost from 10 up to 36 thousand dollars, depending on their volume and weight. In turn, in Alcor, the cryonics service is equal to 200 thousand dollars - the whole person, and the brain - 80 thousand dollars. All these sums are made up of the cost of the substance with which you are cryonized, the capsule in which you “sleep”, and the services of specialists.
As for the territorial location of the repositories of the bodies of the fallen asleep, in Russia they are located in the near Moscow region, in the Urals, and it is planned to open in Siberia.
However, despite the fact that cryostorage facilities are located on the territory of Russia, the population of the country itself is not yet very accepting of such unconventional methods burial sites and the main clients of such companies are still Europeans and Americans. Although on the website of the American "Alcor" you can find a whole section devoted to answers to questions of a religious nature, for example, what happens to the soul during cryo-freezing, when and where it separates, etc. By the way, even the development of a franchise network of cryogenic companies in Russia is aimed more at popularizing this so far alien procedure in the country than at increasing the profits of cryogenic companies.
So, you can earn money by cryonics, freeze yourself after death, or join the ranks of researchers and help the world know the joys and difficulties of resurrection. The decision is yours.
"I remember. Someone died. It was me."
Some people, even on the verge of death, hope one day to come back to life. Cryonics helps fuel these hopes. Several surprising cases of cryopreservation of people are described below.
1 A 2-Year-Old Girl Who Died Of Brain Cancer Became The Youngest Person To Be Frozen In A Cryogenic Chamber
In 2015, a two-year-old girl who died of a brain tumor was frozen because her family hoped that one day she would come back to life thanks to scientific achievements. Matherin Naowaratpong of Thailand is believed to be the youngest person ever to be cryogenically frozen.
The girl was diagnosed with a tumor when she could not wake up one morning. Diagnosed with ependymoblastoma, a rare form of cancer that occurs in very young age. After many months of intensive treatment, after 12 brain surgeries, 20 chemotherapy sessions and 20 radiation therapy sessions, it became clear that there was nothing more doctors could do.
She died on January 8, 1915, after her parents turned off her life support system. By the time of her death, the girl had lost about 80% of the left hemisphere of the brain, which led to paralysis of the entire right side of the body.
Currently, her body has been transferred to the Alcor cryogenic organization, located in Arizona. The brain and body were frozen separately at minus 196°C.
The family hopes that one day science will advance enough to bring the girl back to life. In addition, the parents want to preserve her body and brain so that the disease that caused her death can be studied in the future.
If someone is interested in the price of this enterprise, then the family pays $ 700 annually for "membership" in Alcor. The family also paid an $80,000 bill for "neuroprocedures" for the Mothers, and a complete freeze of the girl's body cost the family another $200,000.
2 Ponzi schemer stole money to freeze his wife
The alleged financial fraudster used the money of depositors for personal, and, moreover, very unusual, purposes. Prosecutors say he used the stolen money to freeze his wife.
Vileon Chey told savers that he invested their money in commodities, foreign currencies and precious metals, but instead spent more than $150,000 on cryogenic procedures for his wife, who died in 2009.
Prosecutors were unable to find out all about his machinations, since 38-year-old Chey, while under investigation in 2011, managed to escape from New York to Peru, and since then he has not been found.
Chey managed to collect more than $5 million from investors, he promised them that he would return about 24% per year of the amount invested, and assured that "there is no risk in this activity," according to prosecutors.
Nevertheless, he spent more than $2 million of the depositors' money on personal needs (one of the depositors noted that Chey arrived in a new car every time they met) and on cryogenic freezing of his wife's body.
3. A terminally ill woman raised funds for her cryopreservation
Cryonics is something we often see in our favorite sci-fi movies, but now more and more people are choosing this path for their own salvation. Of course, if they can afford it.
So when a 23-year-old neuroscience student was diagnosed with brain cancer, she turned to the internet to raise the necessary funds and then freeze herself until a cure was found. Her efforts were successful, and at the moment Kim Suozzi is in cryogenic freezing.
After learning that she only had a few months left to live, Kim took to Reddit to ask users how to spend her remaining days. It was there that the topic of cryopreservation surfaced, after which Kim updated her post and asked for financial help from users.
Futurists, including the Venturizm Society, took up charity work and helped her raise the huge amount of money that was required for cryopreservation.
Cryopreservation is currently only applied to patients who are considered clinically dead, and Kim Suozzi was declared as such on January 17, 2013.
Source 4The heartbroken widow who wished to be frozen in order to reunite with her frozen husband
Residents of Bridgetown, Martha and Helmer Sandberg enjoyed happy life, but when Helmer was dying of a brain tumor in 1994, he did not want his body to be cremated. He preferred something else.
For about $200,000, a former US Marine was placed in a cryogenic chamber. Now he is in Detroit, at the Institute of Cryonics, and is waiting for the time to come back to life.
Mrs. Sandberg also made the decision to be cryogenically frozen after death. “I still miss Helmer,” she said. - I still love him. We have been together for over 20 years, and these have been years of fulfillment and joy."
Mrs. Sandberg expressed her hope that both she and Helmer could one day be revived together, though this is not a requirement.
5 Three Oxford Scientists Pay For Their Cryopreservation
The belief that death is the only certainty in this life is a concept that Oxford senior lecturers hope to disprove by paying the price of being frozen and revived in the future.
Philosophy teacher Nick Bostrom and his colleague Anders Sandberg decided to pay an American company to cut off their heads and place them in deep cryopreservation in the event of their unexpected death.
Stuart Armstrong, their colleague, also wants to be frozen, but he opted for whole-body cryopreservation.
Bostrom, Sandberg and Armstrong are lead researchers at the Human Futures Institute (FHI), which is part of the prestigious Oxford Martin School where scientists research global problems such as climate change on the planet.
And despite this, at the moment there is not a single academic study on cryopreservation. Therefore, scientists have insured their lives and pay 45 euros a month for insurance, which will become a source of funds in the event of their sudden death.
If one of them turns out to be terminally ill, the cryopreservation team will wait for the arrival of a doctor who will have to ascertain death. After that, the blood in the body of the deceased will be pumped by a special apparatus, and the body itself will be cooled, since special preservatives and antifreeze will be added to the pumped blood to protect the tissues.
If it is planned to freeze only the head, then it will be separated from the body, and then it will be placed in nitrogen gas and cooled to minus 124 ° C. Gradually, the head will cool down to minus 196 °C, after which it will be placed in a chamber with liquid nitrogen for long-term storage in a cryogenic facility.
Source 6The legendary baseball player who was put on ice after a lawsuit
When baseball player Ted Williams died in July 2002 at the age of 83, his body was moved from Florida to a cryogenic facility in Arizona for cryopreservation.
Although he himself requested to be cremated while alive, John-Henry and Claudia, his children, chose to be cryopreserved.
Ted's eldest daughter, Bobby-Jo Ferrell, sued her brother and sister to comply last wish father, but John-Henry's lawyer persuaded the parties to sign an informal "family pact", in which they nevertheless agreed to place the father in cryostasis after his death and "revive in the future, if such an opportunity exists."
However, Bobby-Jo's lawyer, Spike Fitzpatrick, soon began to argue that the "family pact" that was written on an ordinary napkin was just a fake. Nevertheless, the examination established that the signatures on the napkin were genuine.
John-Henry stated that his father had always believed in science and would certainly have tried to turn to cryonics if he had the opportunity.
7. The first person to be successfully frozen
Although there was one case of freezing that was interrupted, it is now generally accepted that the first person to be frozen with the intention of returning to life in the future was a 73-year-old psychology professor named James Bedford. He was frozen in compliance with the California Cryonics Society (CSC) on January 12, 1967.
James Bedford In the scientific community, the day of his cryopreservation is celebrated as "Bedford Day". At one time, they even planned to release a limited edition of Life magazine with a cover dedicated to this event, but this did not happen, because it was at that time that the magazine had to report the death of three astronauts during the fire on Apollo 1.
Until 1982, Bedford's body was kept in liquid nitrogen. Storage was handled by his family in Southern California. Then he was transferred to the Alkor organization, where he is currently located.
8 Bitcoin Pioneer Was Frozen After Losing Battle With Sclerosis
In 2014, Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney, widely regarded as the second developer of the world's most popular cryptocurrency after Satoshi Nakamoto, died after a five-year battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at the age of 58. In 2008, a year before he was diagnosed with this disease, Finney made the world's first Bitcoin transaction.
Before his death, he asked to be frozen and kept in the Alcor Foundation. So now his body, from which all blood and other bodily fluids have previously been removed, is stored in a three-meter chamber filled with 450 liters of liquid nitrogen.
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"Time machines" exist. In the world, or rather, in the USA and Russia, there are already hundreds of them. The Alcor base is located in Arizona, the Crionics Institute operates in Michigan, and it improves its capabilities in the Moscow region "KrioRus".
The Americans have already accepted more than three hundred "time travelers", and another fifteen hundred applicants are on the waiting list.
The Russians, who started later, are quickly closing the gap: now 50 people and 20 animals are placed in dewar capsules. Plus, there are dozens of live contracts in the asset. In the full sense of the living: in order to get into the future, one must die.
Postpone the dead line
It is not given to a person to live longer than 115 years, scientists from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who published an article in the journal Nature in October of this year, suggest.
Summarizing the information about the dynamics of human mortality and the maximum age of centenarians since the beginning of the 20th century, the researchers found that until 1980, the life expectancy of "elders" was gradually growing. This was due to the use of vaccines, improved quality medical care and successful fight against cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
The age of the oldest inhabitants of the planet has come close to the centennial milestone, but for two decades there has been no further progress. According to scientists, the chance of meeting a 125-year-old person is negligible.
But there are plenty of motives for trying to move this "death line" back. For example, the exploration of deep space.
The desire for immortality, eternal life is generally inherent in man, confirmation of which can be found in any religion, and in world culture. A whole system of views has been formed - immortalism, the essence of which is the desire to push physical death as far as possible, relying on technical and scientific achievements.
Natural scientists are inspired by the example of the Dutchman van Leeuwenhoek, who discovered the phenomenon of anabiosis back in the 18th century - the reversible cessation of life by drying or freezing living organisms.
Over time, the hypothesis about the feasibility of freezing as the safest and most promising method of life extension became popular and prompted the continuation of scientific research.
Improvement in technologies for cooling gases to ultra-low temperatures, discoveries in the field of molecular biology, achievements in practical medicine have become prerequisites for the formation and development of cryonics (from the Greek cryos - cold) - a method of freezing a person or animal, allowing it to be thawed and revived in the future.
"No, all of me will not die"
The father of cryonics, Robert Ettinger, a scientist and author of the 1960s sensational book Perspectives on Immortality, became the 106th patient of the Institute of Cryonics, which he himself organized. There is no mistake here - technically Ettinger died in 2011 at the age of 92, but for cryonicists, he, like other deep-frozen time travelers, is not a "body", not "remains", but a patient.
Cryonics postulates that death is not an irrevocable one-time event, but a long process consisting of several stages. If, after ascertaining biological death, it is possible to preserve the brain cells, it is possible to transfer the patient's personality into the future, when the level of science and technology will be so high that it will be possible to reanimate the defrosted body or recreate it, at the same time getting rid of diseases that are incurable today.
The cryopreservation procedure begins with hypothermia - cooling the body to zero degrees. This helps to slow down the biochemical processes occurring in the body, including stopping cell necrosis.
Through circulatory system gradually and carefully, so as not to damage the vessels by excessive pressure, a cryoprotectant is introduced. Perfusion lasts four to six hours. Then the patient is cooled with dry ice and transported to the cryostorage, where a dewar container with liquid nitrogen is prepared for him.
Cryonics has not received unequivocal approval in the scientific community. One of the problems scientists see, for example, is the impossibility of "restarting" the brain and returning to life a safe personality. Someone is confused by the lack of guarantees.
Indeed, cryogenic firms do not provide them - without having the gift of foresight, it is impossible to imagine how soon it will be possible to obtain tools and knowledge that can return cryopatients to a full life. It is a matter of faith in the method itself and trust in those who are its guides.
The open letter in support of cryonics was signed by 69 world scientists. The letter lists experimentally proven arguments for continuing research - for example, that the brain is able to restore activity after long-term storage, that large organs can be cryonized without structural damage and successfully transplanted after heating, that the vital activity and structure of complex neural networks can be well preserved during ultrafast freezing.
Sleeping Beauty's Will
"I don't want to be buried in the ground. I want to live, and live long, and I hope that in the future there will be both a cure for my illness and a way to wake me up. I need a chance. That is my desire."
Shortly before her death, a fourteen-year-old English woman with terminal cancer requested that her body be cryopreserved, and the judge approved this decision.
It was not possible to do without the intervention of the judiciary: the divorced parents of the girl had long lived separately and their views on the "afterlife" of their daughter were diametrically opposed. After the verdict of the court, the father was forced to come to terms with the fact that the deceased, instead of resting in peace at the local cemetery, would go to the United States to await resurrection.
Officially, the activity of cryogenic firms today is interpreted as the provision of ritual services. It is possible to apply the cryopreservation procedure only when brain death is legally fixed.
Legislators do not share the research interest of cryonicists, and do not take into account the need to respond as quickly as possible to the fact of a patient's biological death. In Italy, for example, there is a law adopted back in the 60s of the XX century, according to which any manipulations with the body of the deceased are prohibited within 24 hours after the declaration of death.
Formation of relations between the cryogenic company and the patient is a scrupulous and well-timed process. The contract for cryopreservation is increasingly signed not by old people burdened with diseases, but by quite healthy young people, romantically minded supporters of progress. Those who are preoccupied with the possibility of resurrection, already at the last line, are at great risk.
“There were sad stories in our practice as well,” says general director company "KrioRus" Valery Udalov. - A patient from Yokohama contacted us at the end of last year. He had cancer in the last stage, and the doctors gave him no more than six months.
The Japanese cryonics community was engaged only in PR of cryonics, and rather sluggishly, and almost did not help in our communication, more assistance was provided by the Alcor client, who lived in Tokyo.
Correspondence proceeded slowly. In February, the patient became very ill - due to pneumonia, death was much closer to him than everyone expected. Realizing this, he, already in the hospital, said that he was ready to sign a contract, and asked him to urgently send it.
Our intermediary was one hour late. During this time, the uncle of the deceased, a categorical opponent of cryonics, managed to cremate the body."
With a cold head
You can pay for your freezing, transfer to the dewar and subsequent storage not only at a time, but also in installments, through the annual transfer of membership fees. The price of the issue varies significantly - a lot depends on the list of ordered services and the remoteness of the client from the cryostorage. The family of the aforementioned British patient, who set a legislative precedent, had the procedure cost £37,000.
The most expensive - about 700 US dollars - is the annual membership in "Alcor". Taking into account upcoming procedures, including processing, storage and resuscitation, the amount rises to $200,000. Costs can be reduced to $80,000 by limiting neuroconservation, that is, saving not the entire body, but only the head or brain.
Cryonicists believe that this is quite enough. Indeed, assuming that the return to life will take place in a technologically advanced future, the reconstruction of the old or the creation of a new body will not be a problem.
Russian prices are significantly lower: from $12,000 for neuropreservation to $36,000 for full-length cryopreservation. You will also have to pay for the performance of cryotherapy with pets "humanly". This does not stop loving owners: for example, 8 dogs, 8 cats, 3 birds and a chinchilla are waiting in the KrioRus storage facilities.
“The time is not far off,” says Danila Medvedev, chairman of the board of directors of KrioRus, “when cryonics will become a standard procedure and a standard choice for people. You will need to have very good reasons to go to a cemetery or a crematorium instead of a cryopository.”