Hyderabad: Linda Chamberlain works simply down the hallway from her husband. She even walks previous him daily and sometimes stops by to examine on him and say “hey”. Sounds fairly regular, however it isn’t so. The issue? Her partner, Fred Chamberlain, has been lifeless for eight years.
Shortly after he handed away as a result of prostate most cancers, Fred was cryopreserved (his physique was crammed with a medical-grade antifreeze, cooled to minus 196 levels Celsius and punctiliously lowered into a large vat of liquid nitrogen).
In line with CNET, an American media web site, Fred has been cryopreserved in a 10-foot-tall stainless-steel chamber together with eight different individuals, and greater than 170 persons are preserved in comparable chambers in the identical room. Linda claims that each one of them elected to have their our bodies saved in subzero temperatures to await a future once they may very well be introduced again to life.
What’s Cryonics?
Cryonics is the freezing and storage of a human corpse or severed head at an especially low temperature, with the hope that resurrection could also be potential sooner or later.
It’s regarded with scepticism inside the mainstream scientific group and is usually considered as pseudoscience and its follow has been characterised as a well being fraud or ignorant medical follow.
The primary corpse to be frozen was that of Dr James Bedford in 1967. As of 2014, about 250 lifeless our bodies had been cryopreserved in the US and 1,500 individuals have made preparations for cryopreservation of their corpses.
“Authorized loss of life solely actually implies that your coronary heart and your lungs have stopped functioning with out intervention,” says Linda Chamberlain, within the CNET report. “It doesn’t imply your cells are lifeless, it doesn’t imply even your organs are lifeless,” she added. Linda additionally believes that second life is feasible and is optimistic about it.
AlCOR life extension basis
Alcor CEO Max Extra additionally stated “We’re killing individuals who may probably be preserved. We’re simply throwing them within the floor to allow them to be eaten by worms.”
The self-proclaimed world chief in cryonics is promoting a second likelihood at life for $220,000. The founder, Linda Chamberlain says, “Our targets have been to start out a company that might save individuals’s lives and provides them a chance to be restored to well being and performance.”
Linda additionally says that she wish to dwell ceaselessly and could be very fearful of loss of life. She desires to be cryopreserved at ALCOR when her time comes similar to her husband, mom and father in regulation.
Linda stated whereas speaking to Nas Day by day, that the physique she wish to have sooner or later could be non-biological, nanobot swam which implies a physique made from small nanobot computer systems which are all caught collectively very very like our organic cells. Many scientists are nonetheless sceptical and a few even name her loopy.
