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Oxford Academics Pay Big Money To Have Themselves Cryogenically Frozen
Academics at Oxford University pay to be cryogenically preserved so they can be 'brought back to life in the future'
The belief that death is the only certainty in life is a concept senior academic staffs at an Oxford University Institute are hoping to dismantle, by paying to be cryogenically preserved and brought back to life in the future.
Nick Bostrom, professor of philosophy at the Future of Humanity Institute [FHI] and his co researcher Anders Sandberg have agreed to pay an American company to detach and deep freeze their heads in the advent of their deaths.
Colleague Stuart Armstrong is instead opting to have his whole body frozen. Preserving the full body is technically more difficult to achieve and can cost up to £130,000.
Bostrom, Armstrong, Sandberg are lead researchers at the FHI, a part of the prestigious Oxford Martin School where academics complete research into problems affecting the globe, such as a climate change.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/academics-at-oxford-university-pay-to-be-cryogenically-preserved-so-they-can-be-brought-back-to-life-in-the-future-8651133.html
The belief that death is the only certainty in life is a concept senior academic staffs at an Oxford University Institute are hoping to dismantle, by paying to be cryogenically preserved and brought back to life in the future.
Nick Bostrom, professor of philosophy at the Future of Humanity Institute [FHI] and his co researcher Anders Sandberg have agreed to pay an American company to detach and deep freeze their heads in the advent of their deaths.
Colleague Stuart Armstrong is instead opting to have his whole body frozen. Preserving the full body is technically more difficult to achieve and can cost up to £130,000.
Bostrom, Armstrong, Sandberg are lead researchers at the FHI, a part of the prestigious Oxford Martin School where academics complete research into problems affecting the globe, such as a climate change.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/academics-at-oxford-university-pay-to-be-cryogenically-preserved-so-they-can-be-brought-back-to-life-in-the-future-8651133.html
Is this how the zombie apocalypse starts?
