{"id":5005,"date":"2026-03-27T09:23:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=5005"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:23:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:23:02","slug":"heres-why-some-people-choose-cryonics-to-store-their-bodies-and-brains-after-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=5005","title":{"rendered":"Here’s why some people choose cryonics to store their bodies and brains after death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Then there\u2019s the cost. Alcor\u00a0charges $80,000 to store a person\u2019s brain, and around $220,000 to store a whole body. Tomorrow.Bio\u2019s\u00a0charges are slightly higher. Many people, including Kendziorra himself, opt to cover this cost via a life insurance policy.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the main reason people don\u2019t opt for cryonic preservation is that we don\u2019t have any way to bring people back. Bedford has been in storage for more than 50 years, Coles for more than a decade. All the scientists I\u2019ve spoken to say the likelihood of reanimating remains like theirs is vanishingly small.<\/p>\n
The fact that the possibility\u2014however tiny\u2014is above zero is enough for some,<\/strong> including Nick Llewellyn, the director of research and development at Alcor. As a scientist, he says, he acknowledges that the chances reanimation will actually work are \u201cpretty low.\u201d Still, he\u2019s interested in seeing what the future will look like, so he has signed himself up for the cryonic preservation of his brain.<\/p>\n
But Shannon Tessier, a cryobiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, tells me that she wouldn\u2019t sign up for cryonic preservation even if it worked. \u201cIt turns into a philosophical question,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo I want to be revived hundreds of years later when my family is gone and life is different?\u201d she asks. \u201cThere are so many complicated philosophical, societal, [and] legal complications that need to be thought through.\u201d<\/p>\n
This article first appeared in The Checkup,\u00a0<\/em>MIT Technology Review\u2019s\u00a0weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first,\u00a0<\/em>sign up here<\/em>.<\/em>