Yahoo News Humans frozen by cryonics ‘could be restored to being young again’
Around the world, hundreds of people have had their bodies frozen at extremely low temperatures, just after death – in the hope that they can be revived in the future.
Some are so confident that they’ll ‘wake up’ in the future that their loved ones have left them voicemail messages.
But people who ‘come back’ could actually come back to life as their younger selves, according to Dennis Kowalski of Michigan’s Cryonics Institute.
Kowalski says that stem-cell treatments and other currently unknown technology could mean that elderly people could come back to life as 20-year-olds by ‘reverse engineering nature.
Kowalski says, ‘We’re trying to save your DNA and mind. If all we cared about was your DNA, we could save that and clone you and you would look no different, but it would be a totally different person.
While the technology to revive people does not exist yet, it may be available sooner than people expect, Kowalski said.
Kowalski told the Daily Star, ‘If you take something like CPR, that would have seemed unbelievable 100 years ago. Now we take that technology for granted.
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‘Cryonically bringing someone back to life should definitely be doable in 100 years, but it could be as soon as ten.’
Companies pump people’s brains full of ‘cryoprotectant’ fluid before being frozen – in the hope the brains will last decades or even hundreds of years.
Many ‘cryonics’ fans have their heads frozen – not their whole bodies – imagining that in the future, brain transplants will be possible.
Kowalski says that innovations in technologies such as stem cells may make it possible to revive frozen bodies at some point in the future.
Another tech company, Humai is monitoring developments in robotics, medical treatments – and believes people will ‘come back from the dead’ within 30 years.
The company believes that within three decades, technology will have advanced so that people can freeze their brains – then have them transplanted into an artificial, robot-like body after death.
CEO Josh Bocanegra told Popular Science, ‘We’ll first collect extensive data on our members for years prior to their death via various apps we’re developing.
‘After death we’ll freeze the brain using cryonics technology. When the technology is fully developed we’ll implant the brain into an artificial body. The artificial body functions will be controlled with your thoughts by measuring brain waves.
‘As the brain ages we’ll use nanotechnology to repair and improve cells. Cloning technology is going to help with this too.
