Southern Hemisphere's first cryogenically frozen client at rest in regional New South Wales facility

A cryonics company has frozen its first client in Australia in the hope of bringing him back to life.

The client's death certificate was swiftly produced, and his body was moved into the hospital's cold room and packed in ice to bring it down to around 6 degrees Celsius. His temperature was brought down to around minus 200 degrees Celsius in a computer-controlled cooling chamber, before being placed in a pod and lowered upside down into a dewar tank, a specialised vacuum storage vessel similar to a giant thermos, which can hold up to four people.

"I know the work just to actually unthaw some cells that are just sitting in a small little test tube and then making them alive again is a significant process," he said. "The people who are actually doing this business are taking money off people at a time when is very, very vulnerable and, at this stage, there is no prospect at being able to revive that person and reverse this process," he said.

Funerals Preservation Death Memorial Cryonic Preservation Suspension Philip Rhoades Southern Cryonics Patient One Professor Bruce Thompson Melbourne School Of Health Science

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