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In Clinton Township, Michigan, which seems just another office building houses more than 100 human corpses floating in the gentle giant capsules filled with liquid nitrogen. Before you die, these individuals have asked the Institute cryogenic freeze them in the hope that someday, doctors will have technology that can revive them.

Robert Ettinger, the founder of cryogenic movement has become, finally, himself a human lollipop after he died on July 23 of unspecified causes, following several weeks of obvious poor health. At the age of 92 years, the man joined his mother, Rhea, his first wife, Elaine, and the second, Mae, all of which were cryopreserved at cryogenic Institute.

The minimum price that the airline claims for his services is 28,000 dollars. Other organizations charge for customers and amounts up to $ 200,000 and offers the possibility of "neuroprezervării" instead of full body freeze, freezing heads may require only interested in the idea that personality and memories are stored in the brain and loaded into a computer or an artificial body in the future.

Nobody knows for sure whether we can ever restore consciousness frozen bodies, but cryopreservation is a phenomenon present in the animal kingdom and effective medical technology. Many livestock have developed tricks to survive temperatures below zero degrees Celsius, accounting and after periods of paralysis caused by frost. And scientists have made ​​important progress in freezing living tissue and even of whole organs for medical purposes.

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Comments (7)

Bruno Silva
Bruno Silva:

To be honest i wouldnt mind being frozen like this and then when years later be revived lol

October 14, 2011 - 12:37
Shengjia Blaah
Shengjia Blaah:

great they maybe suverved in 100 years

July 27, 2011 - 20:41
Eduardo Costa
Eduardo Costa:

nice share

July 27, 2011 - 00:28
Nuno Dourado
Nuno Dourado:

wowowow awesome news!!!!

July 26, 2011 - 20:02
Gonçalo pinho
Gonçalo pinho:

nice post

July 26, 2011 - 17:03
Hugo Melo
Hugo Melo:

next we will live forever...

July 26, 2011 - 14:45
Ismael Fernandes
Ismael Fernandes:

So pretty .D

July 26, 2011 - 14:10

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