spookysouthwest: In a small office park in Scottsdale, Arizona is the headquarters for Alcor Life Ex

spookysouthwest: In a small office park in Scottsdale, Arizona is the headquarters for Alcor Life Extension Foundation. If you’re ever in the area, stop by for a free tour. It’s the perfect place to house undead bodies: the region of central Arizona is at a low risk for natural disasters. Alcor offers a unique service: the preservation of dead bodies in liquid nitrogen. This storage prevents decay of any kind, so that one day these bodies might be revived and cured of whatever killed them. As of 2017, successful revival after death has not been achieved. Members of the Foundation pay $200,000 from their life insurance policies to reserve their future spot in a container. Organ donation and autopsies are discouraged for the member. Shortly after death, as soon as possible, the member’s body is given to the custody of Alcor, then quickly transported to their facility. There, the body is prepared with preservation chemicals, and then taken to its not-so-final resting place, right here. The oldest container is at the far right of the picture; the newest to the left. They are not powered by electricity, but rather by liquid nitrogen which is refilled often and does not depend on electrical power to keep cool. They are plunged in head-down; four patients can fit in each container. Including neuropatients, who have chosen to have only their heads preserved, there are 83 people awaiting their revivals in this room, ranging in age from 2 years old to over 100 years old. More than 1000 are signed up to for future preservation.  The first person was frozen here in 1967; he will be the last to be revived (first in, last out) due to the fact that damage is more likely in the older patients and will take more effort to repair. That of course won’t be happening for… who knows how long? Obviously, not everyone can be cryopreserved. Any accident that severely mangles the body will exclude it; so too will any long-term decay. One of the victims of the 9/11 attacks had been an Alcor member, but could not be preserved.  Contrary to popular myth, Walt Disney was not cryopreserved. -- source link
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