Can humans freeze themselves and come back to life we've all seen the science fiction plot where someone enters an airtight chamber to freeze their body so that one day in the distant future they can be revived to live in a new world this plot is not as far-fetched as it sounds humans have been freezing themselves since the 1960s the process is called cryonics, and it is the idea that you can use extremely low temperatures to preserve humans through cryogenic freezing currently only humans they're legally dead can be frozen after your heart stops beating you were pronounced legally dead, but you are not dead your cells tissues and brain are still functional, so immediately after death the body is rushed to a cryogenics lab the water in your body is then replaced with antifreeze and you were dropped into a liquid nitrogen chamber at minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit or minus 196 degrees Celsius the idea is that these frozen people will be woken up at a time in the future.
When there is a cure to the illness that killed them so far no one has been revived and it is speculated that no one will be thawed until at least 20 45 so currently we only know how to freeze people we do not know how to wake them up the process of unfreezing someone can be dangerous damage to cells and many unknowns come into play but nature already shows us examples of species that can freeze themselves for a cold winter and come back to life certain species of fish and amphibians have the natural ability to completely freeze over yet sugars in their blood act as a natural antifreeze so their blood stays liquefied and keep circulating even when they are frozen solid when spring comes around these creatures hop crawl or swim away without any bodily harm a common misconception about cryonics is that it's only for the rich and famous. However the price tag to freeze your body is $36,000 if you only want to preserve your brain with hopes of dropping your consciousness into a new body then that will cost you only,$12,000 most people that opt into the cryogenics program also choose to bring their pets with them today there is a strong push to freeze living humans in certain countries where assisted suicide is legal people are asking to be frozen while they are still young and healthy. However, cryonics is unregulated controversial and unproven to work there are certainly more questions and answers surrounding the topic so tell us what you think is this the way to cheat death and reach immortality will this be the tool that allows us to get to distant galaxies or is this where we have gone too far in some sort of Frankenstein zombie experiment.