October 12 Local time, " Daily Mail " revealed the human body freezing laboratory -"Alcor Life Extension Foundation Extension" (hereinafter referred to as Alcor) in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, making its internal appearance public.
From the outside, the laboratory is very inconspicuous, "it's no different from an ordinary warehouse," the newspaper said. But there are 199 bodies of the dead stored here, and they are expected by their families to come back to life one day. Of course, this is also a bet to some extent, mainly to see whether science can make extraordinary progress as promised by the laboratory, resurrecting those who are judged to be dead in medicine and continuing the path of life.
This is the interior of the laboratory, the remains are stored in these large metal cylinders, each large cylinder can hold four remains.
It is reported that these containers do not rely on electricity to operate, and are filled with liquid nitrogen once a week. Liquid nitrogen can keep the body at a low temperature of minus 135 degrees Celsius, stopping all cellular functions but maintaining its activity until it is thawed.
Alcor brings hope to the deceased’s family, the agency’s CEO Max More said in an interview that “it’s not known when the technology needed to awaken the remains will appear.” This means that the family members are just looking forward with an uncertain promise. As for whether they will meet someone who "resurrected the dead", no one is sure.
It is reported that the process of human body freezing in Alcor is that first quickly cools the body . From the picture, we can see that the body is covered with ice and cold water. After , all blood and other body fluids in the body are discharged from , and then substances similar to antifreeze are pumped to prevent cells from crystallizing and damaging during the freezing process. After these work is over, the remains can be stored in liquid nitrogen.
This is what the cylinder that stores the remains looks like. For people suffering from "cluophobia", they will definitely feel nervous and scared.
If you want to store it here, the deceased's family also needs to pay a monetary price. It is reported that the price of frozen corpses of is US$200,000 (about RMB 1.42 million) . If you only choose to freeze your brain, it only costs 80,000 US dollars (about 570,000 RMB). In addition, membership fees and other costs are required.
Hal Finney (58 years old), the body of Bitcoin's early developer, is currently stored in a metal tube in the laboratory. This celebrity who has been fighting "Amyotrophic ALS" for 5 years has really "freezed" this time.
There is also a 3-year-old girl from Thailand who was also sent here by her parents. The grieving parents are looking forward to scientific progress every day so that children who die of brain cancer can return to their side.
Not all bodies meet the freezing conditions, but can these bodies that meet the conditions really be resurrected?
Dr. Michael Hendrix, a professor of biology at McGill University in Canada, is hard to agree with. "Even if a person's nervous system is drawn before they enter the frozen state, it is impossible to completely copy a person," said Dr. Hendrix. “Resurrection or simulation is a downright false hope that goes beyond the promise of technology…”, “I am angry with those who seek benefits from the hopes of the families of the deceased”.
