Tuesday, January 12th, 2016. In Russia, a company deals with freeze the bodies of those who have dreamed of having “eternal life”. This unusual practice has become a replacement of the cemetery, and consists in coagulating the deceased person in a tank; waiting for science to develop a way to revive the dead.
This new process has the name or Cryogenic or Cryopreservation, and involves freezing the cells and tissues at low temperatures, between -80 degrees and 196 degrees; in order to reduce the vital body functions in general, keeping it in suspended life conditions for many years; since at these temperatures the biochemical reactions that produce the cell death, are completely stopped.
KrioRus is the Russian company founded in 2005 in Moscow; it specializes in the preservation of human bodies and pets through the technique of cryopreservation, offering three options depending on the client’s budget: the neuronal Cryopreservation, which keeps alive the head or brain of a person with a cost of $10,000; Cryopreservation of whole body $30,000 and Cryopreservation of DNA. In the case of animals, the cost is about $5,000, depending on size.
This organization was founded by Danila Medvedev, 35 years old; who is convinced of the good service that he has provided to her customers for ten years. Danila is a big fan of science fiction literature, which could be one of the reasons for this crazy idea, bringing it to real life.
His first client was Lidia Ivanovna Fedorenko, a famous case in Russia; because she was kept in dry ice (-80 degrees) for several months, until the creation of the company KrioRus. At present, the company has more than 24 customers stored in two tanks with liquid hydrogen.
According to Medvedev, the secret to that cryonics works, is freezing a person immediately upon confirmation of their death; so there will be less probabilities that the muscle elasticity or massive cell damage were lost. If the body could be maintained at -196 degrees, it can be preserved intact; giving greater opportunities to resurrect it, provided that the technology would be able to reached that point, which still looks distant.
The method of cryopreservation, was created many years ago for the preservation of biological samples with an investigative purpose; also, to keep alive embryos or sperm that were used in an assisted reproduction, commonly used for donation and helping couples who have no chance of having a child naturally. Today, the cryogenic technique is being used for human hope, to an uncertain fate.
ALFA