{"id":92651,"date":"2019-06-25T11:42:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T18:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/inside-cryonics-will-these-bodies-come-back-from-death"},"modified":"2019-06-25T11:42:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T18:42:51","slug":"inside-cryonics-will-these-bodies-come-back-from-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/inside-cryonics-will-these-bodies-come-back-from-death","title":{"rendered":"Inside Cryonics: Will These Bodies Come Back From Death?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8YjrQVVSSbI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Until the day he died, in 2011, Robert Ettinger hoped humanity would figure out a way to cheat death. Today, his body is stored in a chamber filled with liquid nitrogen and frozen to &minus;196 \u00b0C. He lies in cryopreservation at the Cryonics Institute in Michigan\u2014which he founded\u2014alongside his late mother, his first and second wives, and 150 other deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Ettinger, known as the \u201cfather of cryonics,\u201d popularized the idea in his 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality. (Isaac Asimov, the renowned biochemist and science-fiction writer, helped Ettinger publish the book.) Cryonicists believe that technology will sufficiently advance to a point where cells can be rejuvenated and the aging process reversed. In practice, legally deceased patients arrive at a cryonics facility packed in ice. Cryonicists interrupt the dying process by draining the blood from the body and perfusing the corpse with a mixture of anti-freeze and organ-preserving chemicals, known as cryoprotective agents. The body is then transformed into a vitrified state and lowered into a below-freezing chamber filled with liquid nitrogen, where it lies in wait for a future generation to restore it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe Will Live Again\u201d was directed by Myles Kane and Josh Koury (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynundergroundfilms.com).\">http:\/\/www.brooklynundergroundfilms.com).<\/a> It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until the day he died, in 2011, Robert Ettinger hoped humanity would figure out a way to cheat death. Today, his body is stored in a chamber filled with liquid nitrogen and frozen to \u2212196 \u00b0C. He lies in cryopreservation at the Cryonics Institute in Michigan\u2014which he founded\u2014alongside his late mother, his first and second [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2017,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cryonics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92651","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}