The US company provides immortal service for people for $ 200,000

In the heat of the Scottsdale desert in Arizona (Western America), 147 human brains and bodies are "resting". They are frozen in liquid nitrogen, hoping to be regenerated someday. It is not science fiction, and from a certain angle, it is not even considered science. However, thousands of people around the world have put their faith in this technology, with their lives and properties on the promise of Cryonics - technology to preserve the body after death at low temperatures (usually - 196 ° C), with a desire to revive.

"Try to think about half a century ago or longer, if someone stops breathing and the heart stops beating, we will start checking and saying that they are dead , " Max More - the company's chief executive. Alcor, said. "Our view is that when someone says they die, we may just make our assumptions. In fact, they are in need of rescue." "Rescue" right at the time the doctor declared the patient had died. At that time, a group of Alcor had prepared a bath full of ice, put in 16 different drugs and chemicals, until the patient's temperature dropped to almost freezing.

"It is important to make that process happen quickly," Mr. More stressed. To solve this problem, Alcor established various volunteer groups in England, Canada, and Germany and encouraged them $ 10,000. It takes 35 minutes for the surgery and everything will be done in Scottsdale. Next, a surgeon will remove the patient's head, in case they choose the "Neuro" package . Basically, these people hope that they will be revived with new bodies but have the same DNA as themselves. Prices for this option are also cheaper. Specifically, it costs only $ 80,000 for scientists to preserve your head, while the amount spent to preserve the entire body is $ 200,000.

Max More stands in front of storage tanks of 147 bodies.

Compare a little with Cryonics Institute (Michigan, USA). The nonprofit organization is also providing the same type of service, but the cost is probably more affordable, only $ 28,000 for preserving the entire body. That raises a question: Why is this difference?"We are very cautious in the way financial planning" , More shared . "Of the $ 200,000, about $ 115,000 is transferred to the patient care fund , " meaning the cost of caring for customers after they regain consciousness. This budget has now reached more than 10 million USD.

When sent to the United States from England in 1986 to train in Alcor, this time being run by volunteers, Max More registered to become the 67th member of the company. Since then, they have more than 1,000 employees as well as collaborators. Among the members were billionaire Peter Thiel and Google's chief engineer Ray Kurzweil.

Elaine Walker, 47, is teaching at Scottsdale Community College (USA), registered to Alcor's team to freeze her head nine years ago, after finding the "cryonis" technique. in an article. "Not that I want to live again to be able to live another life, or to do something that I haven't had the chance to do. Actually I just wanted to see what would happen then. ' When asked, she said she even wanted to return as a cyborg (half-man half-machine) on some distant planet, Mars for example. .

"Ticket for a journey cannot be done"

Professor Michio Kaku said that cryonics is not scientifically feasible.(Photo: Consciouslifenews).

Legally, Alcor will not be responsible for providing life after death. In fact, after legal death has been confirmed by the government, Alcor's 147 "patients" will be treated as cadaver donors for scientific research. In addition to certain legal barriers, scientists are thought to be struggling with "cryonics" .

Michio Kaku, a futurist and professor of theoretical physics at New York City University, said: "When people ask me a scientific question, I have to give them a verifiable result. Unfortunately, cryonics don't belong to those results ". While cryonics advocates relate to the success of in vitro fertilization or simple animal-based experiments, Kaku points to the missing evidence of humans. Today's science still cannot fully understand the human brain. With more than 100 billion neurons and complex structures, Columbia neurologist - Dr. Ken Miller likened cryonics to a "ticket to the journey that you cannot walk".

But in More's view, Alcor does not sell customers "hope." It is an opportunity. To be fair, before posing difficult questions to answer about cryonics, science still lacks strong evidence so that people can not only believe in the afterlife. And for people like Walker, that's enough for them to spend. " I want to see the future, and that's what I enjoy. The cost is too small for what I hope , " Walker said.