{"id":79944,"date":"2018-06-23T02:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T09:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/the-mystics-seeking-eternal-life-through-liquid-nitrogen"},"modified":"2018-06-23T02:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T09:22:21","slug":"the-mystics-seeking-eternal-life-through-liquid-nitrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/the-mystics-seeking-eternal-life-through-liquid-nitrogen","title":{"rendered":"The Mystics Seeking Eternal Life Through Liquid Nitrogen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-mystics-seeking-eternal-life-through-liquid-nitrogen.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>KrioRus charges $36,000 to cryonize a corpse, or half that for just the head. The process is fairly straightforward: First, cryonicists drain the blood of the \u201cpatient,\u201d and pump in a solution resembling antifreeze. The body goes into a cooling chamber beneath KrioRus\u2019s 2,000-square-foot hangar in Sergiyev Posad, a suburb north of Moscow, for roughly a week. Then it\u2019s immersed, head first, in a double-walled dewar of liquid nitrogen, where it hangs indefinitely until scientists figure out how to revive it. In this way, KrioRus has cryopreserved 61 people and 31 pets, including a cat, a goldfinch, and a chinchilla. At least 487 others have signed up.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cMaybe in five, 30, or 300 years, there will be a way to wake her again,\u201d Riabinina says.<\/p>\n<p>Riabinina\u2019s story is among several that Italian photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.giuseppenucci.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Giuseppe Nucci<\/a> documents in <em>-196: The Pioneers of Resurrection<\/em>. His ethereal, atmospheric images respectfully capture the quest for immortality in Russia, home to a visionary gaggle of cosmists, cryonicists, and transhumanists who believe in a deathless future. They preach resurrection, wear high-tech cyber-suits, and deep-freeze the corpses of loved ones they hope to meet again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all scared of death,\u201d Nucci says. \u201cThe idea that humans will one day defeat it is fascinating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/russian-mystics-cryonicists-eternal-life\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/russian-mystics-cryonicists-eternal-life\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KrioRus charges $36,000 to cryonize a corpse, or half that for just the head. The process is fairly straightforward: First, cryonicists drain the blood of the \u201cpatient,\u201d and pump in a solution resembling antifreeze. The body goes into a cooling chamber beneath KrioRus\u2019s 2,000-square-foot hangar in Sergiyev Posad, a suburb north of Moscow, for roughly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}