Sydney man becomes cryonics facility's first client, with hopes he will eventually be brought back to life
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An unexpected dying request has resulted in a Sydney man being cryogenically frozen in a groundbreaking Australian move.
  • In short: A cryonics company has frozen its first client in Australia in the hope of bringing him back to life in the future.
  • The client, a man in his 80s, died in Sydney before being frozen at minus 200 degrees Celsius at a Holbrook facility.
  • What’s next? The cryonics facility is expecting higher demand as its membership base ages, although it’s still unknown whether anyone preserved this way can ever be revived.
  • brisk@aussie.zone
    6·
    5 months ago

    From the article

    The company said the client was then moved to A O’Hare Funeral Directors at Leichhardt where doctors and perfusionists, who operate heart-lung bypass machines, worked to pump a liquid, which acts as a type of anti-freeze, through the body to help preserve cells and lower the body’s temperature.

    It’s a pretty crude description for an audience not expected to know anything about this, but even so it’s obvious they’re not just shoving a body in liquid nitrogen and calling it a day.

    • Zozano@aussie.zone
      2·
      5 months ago

      they’re not just shoving a body in liquid nitrogen and calling it a day.

      They might as well. No amount of antifreeze is going to stop cells from crystallizing on a mollecular level.

      This is even disregarding the most important part, the brain, which you can’t flood with antifreeze.

      There just isn’t a way around this.