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A British pensioner signed up for ‘cryo-preservation’ to the Alcor Life Extension Foundation.
The word comes from the Greek ‘kryos’, meaning cold.
Blood is replaced with anti-freeze and body will be placed in liquid nitrogen at -196C.
He will enter his ‘pause’ at a facility, where he expects to be held for potentially thousands of years until a healthy revival.
Cryonics is advancing at an exponential rate.
As of August, the UK had 113 members with the Cryonics Institute.
Heads and body tissue are also stored and pet owners have registered 189 animals.
Chefs, students, secretaries and professors are among others who are ‘buying time’.
The aim is to preserve tissues, organs and the brain even after the heart stops beating.
'Industry ‘robs the dying’....No brain can be revived after freezing or a body can be brought back to life' - Dr Miriam Stoppard, Cryonic opponent.
