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Eternal Life Nearly Reality
Eternal life without sickness and old age – everyone dreams about it. But this kind of science fiction may eventually become real and it gets real already today. Science moves forward, and the ghostly idea of cryonics has already become a part of modern life. Leading expert of the Institute of Biology , biophysicist Igor Artyukhov told PRAVDA.Ru chief editor Inna Novikova about his struggle with yet the inevitable.
“Mr. Artyukhov, if you freeze a human being who has died of an incurable disease, will it be possible to cure him in 20, 30, 40, 100 years?”
“After 20 years – probably unlikely. But in 40 years, I would not rule that out. If people do not learn how to do it in 100 years, I would be surprised to know about it. This can be possible if the current rate of technological progress remains the way it is today – very high that is.”
“We now have a company, KrioRus, that is responsible for this kind of future -cryopreservation. And you are related to this company.”
“Yes. I am actually the director of research at the company. Well, we do not do much science there, to be honest, simply because there are no financial resources for this. The firm is on the edge of survival, the services are cheap as possible.”
“How cheap are they?”
“The cryopreservation of the brain is about 10,000 dollars, of the whole body 30,000 dollars, it is a one-time fee.”
“That is, you enter into a contract with clients.”
“Yes, but people mostly call us and say: ‘You know, our grandfather has died, we would like to freeze him.”
“How many frozen bodies or body parts do you have?”
“About 20…”
“And you have there a storage facility, where certain conditions are crated?”
“Yes, there’s liquid nitrogen, the temperature is minus 196 . Maintaining such a low temperature is not that easy technically, so, in fact, it is worth the money.”
