Can You Cheat Death?
Cryonics: A practice to freeze human remains to revive them in the future
As a human, we eventually will end our lives when we face death. Death is inevitable. At least it is what we know, for now.
But what if I tell you, there is a technology development — called cryonics — to preserve our bodies at a very low temperature so they can be revived? Is it truly possible?
The Concept of Cryonics
The initial idea of cryonics came from Robert Ettinger in 1964 when he officially published The Prospect of Immortality book. Ettinger brings out a scientific argument that a deep-frozen body has a better chance of being revived than being buried in the ground.
This cryonics procedure can be executed shortly after an individual is declared legally dead. The body will be packed in ice and stored in a chamber filled with liquid nitrogen.
It uses temperatures below -196°C, which the process is commonly called cryopreservation.
Cryopreservation is a technique used to preserve organelles, cells, tissues, or other biological materials by cooling them to extremely low temperatures.
