'Eternal life': British people are paying KrioRus, a Russian company up to £29,200 to be cryogenically frozen when they die in the hope that they will be brought back to life in future. A professor of medicine and a scientist have both signed contracts with Moscow-based KrioRus, as has a pensioner.
The KrioRus firm claims it offers 'bargain basement' prices compared to American labs, with a special deal to freeze only the human brain for £10,000.
The brain would then be defrosted and placed in 'new' human body when technology allows.
When they die, their frozen remains will be packed in dry ice and flown or transported overland to Russia, to be stored for decades, centuries or even longer in large Dewar flask deep freezers located inside a modest, unheated warehouse in a quiet snow-covered village surrounded by private houses some 47 miles northeast of the Kremlin.
In future, if and when nano-technological advances allow, they hope an attempt will be made to coax their corpses or frozen brains back to life.
This Russian company - which now has 52 bodies or brains in its storage flasks filled with human remains, and is actively seeking more clients - claims to offer a more cost-effective 'service' to its 'patients' than in America.
Brainbox: This KrioRus cryogenization box is to store human brains, which are removed after death and held for a sum of £10,000
Draped around are the flags of the company's clients, the only flashes of colour in this clean but austere repository.
Privacy laws prevent KrioRus naming its customers without their prior consent, but general-director Valeria Udalova, 56, said two British clients were men now aged around 60, and they have signed the relevant paperwork so their instructions to be cryogenically preserved will be carried out on their deaths.
One is an eminent professor of medicine who had opted for whole body deep frozen for the future.
'Another British patient is a male scientist who has chosen to have only his brain preserved,' she said.
In such cases, people hope that the brains could be implanted in a future brave new world to an available healthy - and perhaps younger - body.
A third is a retired man from the UK - whose previous occupation was not disclosed - who also chose brain-only freezing.
A fourth, 'a male student from a London suburb' is currently sorting out the wording of his contract, but he planned to opt for whole body preservation, she said.
She claimed the prospect of returning to life in the future is real.'None of them are seriously ill or expected to die soon,' she said.
'All our patients have a chance to be brought back to life, it depends only on speed the development of nanotechnologies,' she said.
'There is no time limit at all.
'It can be 1,000 years or more if necessary, but I do hope science will find a way of bringing them back to life much earlier.
'If the speed is high, it may happen in as little as 40 years.
'Of course, the patients will be defrosted in that very state in which they were cryogenically preserved, and at precisely the exact age' - since their bodies have been frozen in time.
'Their future lives will then depend on the successes of medical advances by this time.'
KrioRus charges £29,200 for whole body preservation, or £9,750 for keeping the brain only for posterity, known as neuro-preservation.
Source; Mailonline
