Having your head cryogenically frozen for potential future resuscitation is a service which could be offered to the public at an ‘affordable’ price within 10 years, a stem cell bank has claimed.
Cryogenic head freezing聽is thought to be a way of preserving enough of someone鈥檚 personality, intellect and memories to be able to bring them back to life at a point in the future when technology is more advanced.
Stem cell storage company聽StemProtect.co.uk says it is still mainly a practice for the rich with the high costs involved, but that it could become widely available within five to 10 years.
The service would be offered at a cost of 拢5,000 for 250 years, which founder Mark Hall points out is 鈥渃heaper than some funerals鈥�.
鈥淲e鈥檙e accustomed to making jokes about freezing heads when we die, and of course everyone knows Walt Disney did it – often that鈥檚 their only point of reference,鈥� Hall said.
鈥淏ut soon we could see this practice becoming commonplace because advances in technology have made it much more affordable.
鈥淎nd of course, while we鈥檙e not at the point yet where we can bring someone back to life from this procedure, we believe it鈥檚 just around the corner.鈥�
Other ways of preserving vital tissue, such as stem cell banking, are now much more commonplace than ever before, Stem Protect says.
Unlike freezing a head, which is done to bring a dead individual back to life, the work StemProtect.co.uk currently do is aimed at preserving information about the body which can be used for medical purposes while the person is still alive.