East cold embrace dreaming longevity

A group of scholars from Oxford University decided to freeze the body after death in the hope of being revived in the future.

In a direction that many consider to be hopeless, leading British scholars are embracing one of life's immutable principles: birth and death. Some people choose to freeze their heads and wait for rebirth in the new body, while others only trust the existing body and decide to freeze the whole body.

According to The Independent, Nick Bostrom, Professor of Philosophy of the Institute of Human Future (FHI) and colleague Anders Sandberg have just signed a contract worth at least £ 50,000 with an American company to cut their heads, frozen. to wait for the day to return to positive, though not yet sure when that day is. Meanwhile, another FHI scientist Stuart Armstrong chose to preserve the whole body, although it is technically more difficult to implement and costs up to £ 130,000. It is quite certain that the group of 3 does not have to dream about the field of research. Bostrom, Armstrong, Sandberg are all leading experts at FHI, at the prestigious Oxford University of the country.

Freezing room of Alcor Firm in Arizona - (Photo: Alcor Life Extension Foundation)

Despite the achievements in areas such as studying global influences, such as climate change, there are no projects related to preserving the body by freezing at the university. Therefore, the team set up life insurance terms with a fee of £ 45 per month to save money for their longevity plan. However, the choice was different, Mr. Bostrom and Sandberg believed in Alcor Life Extension, based in Scottsdale, Arizona (USA), while Mr. Armstrong decided to register for the Institute's service. Frozen in Michigan.

By the time near the end of life, the team of experts will be on duty and wait for the doctor to declare the customer dead. Next, the body, or a particular part, will be placed in the conservator, depending on the person's original choice. For those who have chosen the body frozen package, their bodies will be attached to a machine to maintain blood circulation. In the case of people who just want to preserve their heads, like Mr. Sandberg, the head will be cut off from the corpse before the nitrogen is pumped in to reduce the temperature to -124 degrees C. Eventually the person will be maintained. at a temperature of -196 degrees C, and placed in a liquid nitrogen oven for storage. Although knowing that the ability to restore life with only the first part will be limited, Sandberg and Bostrom hope to soon emerge technology that allows them to download their memories and personalities into computers; then switch to a new living body.

Thus, Mr. Armstrong's group is on the list of nearly 1,000 people who trust Alcor, among them there is no shortage of celebrities such as Britney Spears, female Paris Hilton and former ex-judge American Idol Simon Cowell. . Up to now, Alcor is preserving 117 customers (of which 77 are only preserved at the beginning) and 33 pets.

Besides, it is known that Mr. Armstrong's wife Miriam is pregnant and they decided to register for the unborn child to participate in the experiment. Armstrong said that if calculating the premium of £ 25 in this case, the longevity is cheap if compared to the money to join the gym every month.