Cryogenic

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At the center, your body is put on a table in the perfusion room. A team of three or four technicians work to drain the blood out of your body and inject a cryoprotective agent to get as much moisture as possible out of the tissues, so the organ don't crack during freezing.
The body is then dried and wrapped in a cotton sheet. It is placed, cocoonlike, into a standard sleeping bag, head first, with the open end by the feet tied off. The body is placed in a large brown box lined with Styrofoam and packed with dry ice. It remains there for seven days to slowly bring the temperature down. By the time the body is removed, it is about minus 112 degrees Fahrenheit.
Next, the body is moved to another large brown box, the bottom-lined with liquid nitrogen. For another week, it’s slowly lowered, a little further each day, as more liquid nitrogen at a t4emperature of minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit.
The Final step moves you to a cryostat to be stored with other bodies immersed in ...

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body in good condition. The trick is maintaining victims of cancer, AIDS, heart disease, or old age until then. Maintaining mean preserving the structures of the brain that record the memory and the personality.
Only when these are lost are the people truly, permanently, irrevocably dead. That why most cryonicists try to keep the brain in perfectly good condition. So most cryonicists preferred that only the head was to be frozen. That why neurosuspension was more popular among the cryonicists rather than freezing the whole body. But by the time
scientists have developed a method of successfully bringing suspenders back from the dead they should also be able to clone a new ...

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