- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Tomorrow Bio offers to begin the cryopreservation process immediately after a patient is declared legally dead, in the hopes that they can be revived in the future
By: shajil kumar
A HIGH-TECH startup in Germany is offering people a chance to preserve their body after death in the hopes that they can be revived in the future.
Berlin-based Tomorrow Bio cryogenically freezes the corpses for a long period and claims that six people and five pets have undergone the procedure and 650 people are on the waiting list.
Cryonics supporters believe that future breakthroughs in nanotechnology and regenerative medicine could make revival possible.
However the procedure costs a fortune — $222,603 (£169,702.51) plus a $55 monthly membership fee — to put bodies and body parts on ice. Preserving the brain alone cost $83,473 (£63,636).
Co-founder Fernando Azevedo Pinheiro (40) told the Daily Mail that he believes safe cryopreservation and reanimation of complex organisms would become a reality during his lifetime.
Tomorrow Bio offers to begin the cryopreservation process immediately after a patient is declared legally dead.
Inside retrofitted ambulances they carry out vitrification that involves replacing a corpse’s bodily fluids with “essentially medical-grade antifreeze” to preserve them from irreversible cold damage.
Temperatures are dropped to around minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit (-195.55 Celsius) over a little more than a week before the body is stored in a long, steel container containing liquid nitrogen for long-term storage.
If a person is successfully revived in future and their investment hasn’t been fully used in treatment, they get the remaining money back.
The company has storage facilities across Europe including Berlin and Amsterdam and plans to open one in New York.
