Cryonics: Freezing to live again? | What happens to us after death?
Tanks with chemical solutions in which bodies float, deep-frozen people who are brought back to life in the future – we've seen this in sci-fi movies, but will it ever become reality?
In this episode, Lisa-Sophie meets Dr. Emil Kendziorra, who not only believes that this will eventually be possible thanks to cryonics, but is already offering his company's customers cryopreservation. This is what it's called when people are essentially frozen after their death, in the hope that it will be possible in the future to revive them and cure diseases that can't be treated today or to replace organs that no longer function.
And that's exactly what people who currently choose postmortem freezing are betting on. After their death has been clinically confirmed, they are preserved in large storage tanks filled with liquid nitrogen, so-called "Dewars," with no guarantee that they will ever actually be revived.
In this film from our series "What Happens to Us After Death?" you'll learn exactly how it works, why people choose it, what the procedure costs, what the critical points are, what is legally permitted, and whether Lisa-Sophie could imagine cryopreservation.
This film is for educational purposes.
This is a reupload of our film from August 10, 2021.
Reporter: Lisa-Sophie Scheurell
Author: Teresa Tanriverdi
Camera: Gregor Simbruner
Editing: Markus Valley
Community: Jan Rothe
Editor: Katharina Kestler
00:00 What is cryopreservation?
02:08 Why do people want to be cryopreserved?
04:41 Is it possible to freeze people and revive them in the future?
06:02 How and where are preserved people stored? 08:11 How do people and their families deal with such a decision?
09:33 Why is cryopreservation so expensive?
11:16 Why is Emil so interested in cryopreservation?
13:31 What happens when a customer dies?
16:04 Why should cryopreservation really work?
17:21 What happens to bodies after death?
19:27 Why can you only be frozen after death?
20:56 What moral issues are there with cryopreservation?
21:50 Lisa-Sophie's conclusion
22:38 Closing remarks
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