German startup freezes people to resurrect them in the future. All for less than €200,000

Is resurrecting impossible? For now, says Tomorrow.Bio, Europe’s first cryopreservation laboratory. The most believers make bets: just in case, they hand over their bodies to the company. After all, it’s cheaper than a house.

“Three or four” people, five pets, over 700 registrants and 2 thousand candidates. Many agree to hand over 200 thousand dollars (about 194 thousand euros) in exchange for an opportunity to be resurrected.

Cryopreservation aims to freeze humans after their death so that, in a future in which science is more advanced, they can have a second chance to live.

Many experts, due to the lack of scientific evidence that resurrection may one day be possible, consider the “absurd” ideaas is the case of Clive Coenprofessor of neurosciences at King’s College London.

The expert considers human cryopreservation “a misplaced faith in antifreeze and a misunderstanding about the nature of biology, physics and death.”

But the German startup disagrees. It is the first cryopreservation laboratory in Europe, operates inside ambulances and wants to expand the numbers presented above.

The majority of its customers are under 60 and finance their “subscription” through a life insurance (which can be done through the company or independently).

During the process, the bodies are cooled to negative temperatures and fed with cryoprotectant liquid. “When you drop below zero degrees, you don’t want to freeze the body, you want to cryopreserve it. Otherwise, we would have ice crystals everywhere and the tissue will be destroyed,” he explains. Emil Kendziorraco-founder of the company.

And, as long as the temperature is maintained, “this state can be preserved for practically indefinite periods of time”, says the researcher, who is unable to provide an estimate for when it will be possible to restore life to a dead body.

Still, he points out, it is necessary to consider all options, starting with cryopreservation. “Taking a heart and putting it into another human being seems, at first glance, very strange”, comments Kendziorra about the organ transplant“but we do it every day”.

“The plan would be that, in the future, the medical technology had advanced enough so that the cancer or whatever led to the patient’s death was curable and the cryopreservation procedure itself could be reversed“.

Even though there are no predictions for the future, the startup’s co-founder does not consider the business to be dishonest — he thinks it is, at the very least, a good bet.

“I would say that the freedom to make the choice for yourself overrides all other potential ethical considerations,” he says. “Having a slim chance of coming back against no chance seemed like a logical choice.”

Furthermore, if “there are a huge number of people who buy their second superyacht, who are 85 years old, who have, I don’t know, three more years of life”, what is, then, 200 thousand euros in exchange for a second chance?