Today I toured the well known Cryogenics facility in Canton, Georgia with a woman named Maria Phelps who is a partial owner and operator of the Cryogenics facility. When I was touring the facility, Maria told me that there are eight hundred and ninety-five members that are frozen at the cryogenics facility in Canton, Georgia today. There is an additional four hundred and five people with memberships waiting for their life to “end” so they can be frozen. She also told me a membership can be easy to obtain, and can cost as little as $0.68 a month. A person would pay every month up until they die, and then you can finish paying at the same rate if you are ever defrosted. So technically, if you never get to be defrosted you are saving yourself quite a large sum. A full person corpsicle (human popsicle) has cost up to $188,000!
Yes that’s correct you could basically be paying for a new house. Instead, you are banking it all on the theory that you will be able to be defrosted, or thawed out one day. Think that’s a little crazy? Well let’s not forget the eight hundred and ninety-five people already frozen at the facility in Canton, Georgia! There is a Cryogenics facility in almost every state in the United States, that’s around 45,000 corpsicles already in the United States. According to a study done in the book The Future of Death written by James J. Hughes Ph. D., 85% of Americans support Cryogenics before death and that number has been continually rising for over forty years. Please see the graph below.
Below represents the percent of Americans that would say “yes” to “When a person has a disease that cannot be cured, do you think doctors should be allowed by law to end the patient’s life by some painless means if the patient and his family request it?”
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The Future of Death, Benson 1999 |
The Cryogenics institute is a 7,000 square feet recently built, modern building that is in relatively good condition but has had improvement for safety, security, convenience, and appearance. Up until 8 years ago, in 2003, the institute did all of the procedures in the Procedures Room. Now they must be done outside of the facility grounds with a funeral director present. Once the patient has been prepped and prepared to be cryogenically frozen they are taken to the cryogenics facility to be placed in liquid nitrogen to be frozen. After the little field trip through the “nitrogen car wash”, we are headed to the large freezer! Exciting isn’t it? The “large freezer” is made of concrete and minerals that will help make the concrete box remain stronger and to be a better insulator for the nitrogen to keep the members frozen. The members will be kept here until medical researchers find a way to thaw out all corpsicles in the world. So now that you have learned a little bit more about cryogenics, are you dying to be dead so that you can be cryogenically frozen?
Wow,who knew that we had corpsicle neighbors? Right here, in Canton, Georgia!
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