© News ScanDr. Max More
A British 'futurist' in charge of one of the world's largest cryogenic facilities has compared himself to Leonardo Da Vinci, saying it is just a matter of time before
science advances to the point where preserved bodies can be revived after death.
Dr Max More, who was born in Bristol and went to Oxford University, also revealed he has plans to preserve just his head in the future, saying "the rest of my body is replaceable". He is the President and CEO of Alcor Life Extension Foundation, in Scottsdale, Arizona - a facility which began storing bodies in 1982.
Earlier this year, a 14-year-old girl who died of cancer became the youngest Briton to be cryogenically frozen in the hope she can be "woken up" and cured in the future after winning a landmark court case.The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, arrived at the only other crypto-preservation facility in the US, the Cryonics Institute in Michigan, at the end of October.
She is their 143rd patient.
© News ScanA 14-year-old girl became the youngest British person to be cryo-preserved earlier this week.
"It's an unusual job to be running a cryonics organisation," said Dr More earlier this year in a documentary by
Galactic Public Archives. "It's impossible to give a date to say when we can revive people....it could be decades, a century. We are like Leonardo Da Vinci who could design wings and helicopter which could work but he didn't have the tools to build them back then. Of course we are
developing the technology to reduce the damage done to our patients to get them cryo-preserved but we don't know exactly how we will reverse that process right now."
Comment: See also: For $80,000, people are signing up to be beheaded, frozen for a chance at life after death.