Today I went to The Medical College of Georgia and listened to Maria Phelps, an expert in cryogenics speak about cryogenics benefits, the advancements it’s made, and the cost of it. Maria spoke to approximately 600 people, men and women of all ages about cryogenics. Some benefits she mentioned about cryogenics were that when you are brought back to life you could have greater strength and toughness, better reflexes, greater dimensional stability, and many more positive side effects. Alcor the founder of his own Cryogenics facility once said, “The purpose of cryonics is to save the lives of living people, not inter the bodies of dead people. Death is a neurological process that begins after the heart stops. A stopped heart only causes death if nothing is done when the heart stops. Cryonics proposes to do something.”
Much advancement has been made in cryogenics over the past years. Cryogenics can even be used successfully on plants, animals, just not humans. Not yet anyway. An odd but extremely interesting thing is that Forest Frogs freeze during the winter and “thaw out” during the spring. Maria included a video with the frogs actually frozen and fully recovering within 3 hours, imagine if we could do that with people. Many cryogenics experts, including Maria, have said that cryogenics will improve within 20 years and we will be successfully “thawing people out.” Maria also said that, “In 20 or so years we could just have a shot that will put you to sleep, inject all the necessary chemicals into you and all the cryogenics staff would have to do is put you in the cryopreservatory.”
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Maria was asked about the cost of cryogenics and responded, “A very touchy topic in the 21st century seems to be money.” Have you thought about being cryopreserved before? Didn’t think you have enough money? Well even if you are having to scrimp and save to get by these days, don’t rule cryogenics out yet. Do you have an extra $0.65 a day? That’s right just $0.65 a day, every day up until the day you “die” and then you can resume paying after you are brought back to life until it is paid off. The price can vary though, depending on what kind of cryopreservation you want to have done. You can get your full body cryopreserved, which is basically what it sounds like, your whole body would be frozen then brought back to life the same way it was for about $130,000-160,000. Or you could get just your brain cryopreserved which costs around $90,000.
After reading about all of the benefits, advancements, and costs of cryogenics do you think you would consider it for yourself? Whether you have a terminal illness, want more time to live, or are just interested in it. I would enjoy reading your opinions about cryogenics before and after death in the comment box below. Thanks for reading!
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