Cryonics: facts on which leenee blood
What if it is really possible to cheat death, filling his veins with chemicals and hanging upside down in a sleeping bag inside of the vessel with liquid nitrogen, so that through tens or hundreds of years you raised? asks The Independent. The idea of a phantasmagoric, but in a world already stored so more than 200 tel: people believe that cryonics will grant them eternal life, says journalist Rob Hastings. Recently the store has got himself the founder of the movement, Robert Ettinger, who died at the age of 92.
"Ettinger, a former physics teacher, was 106-m man, whose body will be stored in Detroit in the cryonics Institute, which he founded in 1976. Previously, inspired by the ideas of science fiction, Ettinger wrote the book "the Prospect of immortality, where the idea is presented as absolutely realistic," says the newspaper. And achievements of medicine Ettinger became interested in even earlier - after the transplant bone (he was wounded in the leg during the battle of Ardennes during the Second world).
Ettinger cannot be accused of pessimism, the author notes. Whatever was the cause of death, even if the methods of freezing imperfect, "our friends from the future sooner or later will cope with the task to resurrect and heal us," he wrote.
British photographer Murray Ballard is one of the few who have been in klinicheskih stores and photographed all stages of preservation of the body, says the publication. He visited all three of the largest store, located in the United States and Russia. In the world about 1 thousand people, who bequeathed to keep their bodies in the hope of resurrection in the future. According to Ballard, the majority of well-informed about medicine and understands that cryonics is an experimental science and its methods are not tested in practice. In any case, "if you dream of immortality, there is no other way", said the photographer.
Ballard has twice visited the Institute Ettinger, and three - Institute "Kriorus" near Moscow, where criostasis are 15 "patients" as it's called, and Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Arizona, where the body 104. In Alcor have the opportunity to Lodge only his head, like in the animated series "Futurama". "It is assumed that the brain is just the hard drive that stores all the memories and your personality," says Ballard. People hope that in the future will be able to grow a new body and to instill in him the brain.
"After the death of the patient as quickly as possible should be placed in a tub with ice water, and then connect to the device, which will ensure that the circulation, so that the cells would not die," is how the publication process of saving a phone In the next step, the blood substitute fluid, which prevents ice formation in cells at low temperature. The body was transported to the store, put in a sleeping bag designed for conditions in the Arctic, and placed in a "cryostat" - a giant thermos. Gradually, the body cools down. Hang the body upside down to make the head was found in a very cold place.
"Rates vary. The Cryonics Institute takes patients by 28 thousand dollars, and most patients Alcor pay through life insurance policies. To keep the body completely, you need to purchase insurance for 200 thousand dollars at least," reads the article.
They say if the first freeze in the hope to revive Walt Disney, but it's just a legend. The science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke believed that the probability of success of cryonics is not less than 90%, but he was buried in a traditional way. Ettinger, however, is now stored near his mother and two wives.
Author:
Rob Hastings
Source:
The Independent
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