It’s possibly one of the most ‘out there’ ideas ever, but to father-of-four Dennis Kowalski, and others like him, cryopreservation – being frozen when you die and brought back to life in the future – makes perfect sense. So much so that ex-paramedic Dennis has signed up his wife Maria and their three sons – Jacob, 19, Danny, 17, and James, 16 – to be preserved in a vat of liquid nitrogen when they pass away, at a cost of £100,000 ($140,000).
The process, known as cryonics, preserves the human body at extremely low temperatures after death, until medical science has advanced enough in the future to bring the person back for ‘a second chance’.
Introduced in 1962 by the father of cryonics, Robert Ettinger, cryopreservation has five main stages.…