The first person to freeze the body waits for a chance of rebirth

Hal Finney is a cryptographer, programmer, one of the first people to join the bitcoin project, who died at the age of 58 August 28 in the United States.

He suffered from ALS , a rare muscular atrophy syndrome. ALS is concerned by the world over the past week through the Ice Bucket Challenge fundraising program supported by Facebook director Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft founder, billionaire Bill Gate.

Finney made many contributions to the writing of PGP encryption software in the 1990s, and then the TOR encryption software. Since 2008, he has been involved in writing code for Bitcoin when this project switched to open source. Finney has received a lot of Bitcoin from Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto.

Hal Finney and his wife shot in 2013

Hal Finney became one of the early testers of the technology, only to hear it was in fiction: Filling the body so that it can be revived in the next ten or several hundred years. Immediately after his official death was announced on Thursday, at 9 am, his body was quickly taken to a professional frozen service facility called Organization to Extend Life Alcor (Alcor Life Extension Foundation), in the city of Scottsdale, Arizona.

In the evening, blood is removed from Finney's body, and pumped into an Alcor liquid called M-22 . The liquid, according to the company 's explanation, is non - toxic, used to combat freezing, which leads to cell destruction when cooled.

In a few days, the body will continue to get a temperature drop to -320 degrees F (-195 degrees C). Then, the body soaked in 450 liters of liquid nitrogen, contained in an aluminum container. In this state, the cells will go into a completely inactive state.

This preserved body can wait until there is ALS technology or anti-aging technology, according to Max More, Alcor's director, who is Finney's longtime friend. Then we can bring Finney back to life again.

In fact, no case has been resurrected from a frozen human body. Many scientists think that this idea is not feasible. However, Finney's wife said he was willing to participate in this experiment.