Medicine will awaken her in the future

He hopes to be reunited with his wife Sylvia after death, but not in another life. The hope is that, after being frozen after dying at age 66 from cancer, iher body can be brought back to life to cure the disease that led to her death. 82-year-old Alan Sinclair has signed up for this reason in a US experimental program that could change the world. He plans to join his already deceased wife when his time comes – all for the non-profit Cryonics Institute.

This is a technology bet and Alan knows it very well. However, he could not help but be impressed by the project and decided to register with the hope of a future awakening. The goal of suspension in nitrogen liquid at -196 ° C is the preservation of tissues, organs and the brain after the heart stops beating. First, the patient’s blood is replaced with cryoprotectants. The process is known as vitrification. “I think this is a possibility – Alan said – and that it is still better to hope than to be eaten by worms, so I said to myself why not. Scientists make progress all the time, there is no reason why they should not be able to do something like that. They reanimated worms millions of years ago, why can’t you imagine such a thing with us? We just need to repair the damage that made us die. “

Sylvia died six weeks after being diagnosed with lung cancer in 2013. Alan paid £ 28,000 for the preservation of the woman’s body and for transport from England to the USA. Nanotechnology is perhaps the most important promise for the couple’s “rebirth”. Opponents of these studies view cryonics as a fanciful pseudoscience, but Alan continues to think otherwise. “I enjoy life, even though I have aged, and certainly if they asked me to die tomorrow I would refuse. I see nothing wrong with the hope of an awakening” explains Alan. With this hope, Sylvia has not received a funeral, but only a commemorative plaque that the family uses for special occasions such as her birthday.

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