7NEWS: Queensland couple hope to be among those cryogenically frozen at Australia-first facility
, even have an agreement that if one of them “doesn’t unfreeze properly”, the cryogenicists will “pull the plug on the other”, Pease said.
The Peases want to become among the first people frozen at a newly-built facility in the NSW town of Holbrook — the first such facility in the Southern Hemisphere — operated by Southern Cryonics.With Barbara in her 40s and Allan undergoing radiation treatment to his prostate, they were unable to conceive naturally.Old Apple computer set to sell for more than $300,000“The other was put into cryo-suspension for two years, which they’d been doing for IVF for quite a few years.
He claims the technology to cryogenically freeze a person has been “pretty much perfected”, but is “not there yet for unfreezing and coming back” — and may not be for another 50 years.“You’ve got to be optimistic about the science, that they’ll come up with the technology,” he said.If things don’t work out as he hopes, “we’re heading for blackness anyway, so what’s the difference?”, he says.Southern Cryonics has built a facility in NSW to house cryogenically frozen humans.
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