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Hope for Rebirth: Bodies of 199, including Bitcoin Founder Finn, Placed in Nitrogen Tank

You may have only heard of reincarnation but an American company claims to have developed the technology for it. In fact, the bodies of 199 people in Arizona, USA have been preserved in the hope that they will recover from the disease and be brought back to life once the technology is developed.

The corpses of these people are kept in nitrogen-filled tanks in the hope of rebirth. The organization that administers it, the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, calls these people patients. Who died of cancer, stroke, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or another disease. Dead bodies preserved in this way are called cryopreserved. The youngest of these patients is Matherin Nowratpong. In 2015, a 2-year-old Thai girl died of brain cancer. Alcor CEO Max Moore says his parents were doctors.

Even after several brain surgeries, all was in vain, they approached. Bitcoin introducer Hull Finn is also a patient of Alcor. His body has been preserved here after he died of paralysis in 2014. The process of cryopreservation is very different. After a person is declared legally dead, blood and other fluids are removed from the patient's body. A special chemical is filled in its place.

1.65 crores for preservation of dead body at Alcor Lab. While the cost of the brain alone is 67 lakhs. Alcor's 1400 members pay the company as beneficiaries in life insurance plans.