A new cryonics lab will freeze your body for $200k and try to revive you in the future.
Tomorrow.Bio, Europe’s first cryonics lab, aims to preserve bodies at sub-zero temperatures in hopes of future revival when medical science advances enough to cure their fatal ailments.
Despite skepticism from scientists and the absence of any successful revivals, the company has already cryopreserved a handful of clients and pets, with 700 more signed up.
The procedure involves replacing bodily fluids with cryoprotective agents to prevent ice crystal damage, cooling the body to -196°C, and storing it indefinitely.
Tomorrow.Bio’s founder, Emil Kendziorra, compares the concept to other medical breakthroughs, such as organ transplantation, which were once seen as impossible.
Critics argue that cryonics is plagued by ethical, scientific, and logistical challenges. Decomposition begins the moment life ceases, and even if revival becomes feasible, there’s no guarantee the brain’s neural structure — key to memory and identity — can be restored.
Still, proponents see cryonics as a long-shot worth taking. Some clients, funding their preservation through life insurance, view it as a form of time travel, embracing the idea of a second chance at life. Tomorrow.Bio has ambitious goals, including preserving neural structures by 2025 and achieving reversible cryopreservation by 2028. W
hile cryonics remains a speculative science, its growing popularity underscores humanity’s enduring fascination with extending life — and perhaps, one day, defeating death.
