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There are around people cryopreserved in the US alone. As the procedure hit the headlines again this week, we look at why people are freezing their bodies after death Fri, Nov 18, , Updated: Fri, Nov 18, , Jennifer O'Connell. Commenting on The Irish Times has changed. To comment you must now be an Irish Times subscriber. The account details entered are not currently associated with an Irish Times subscription.

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If Bryant and his team can find a way to cryopreserve platelets, it could one day streamline this process and reduce waste. Originally published by Cosmos as Can human bodies really be cryogenically frozen? Cosmos is published by The Royal Institution of Australia, a charity dedicated to connecting people with the world of science.

Financial contributions, however big or small, help us provide access to trusted science information at a time when the world needs it most. Please support us by making a donation or purchasing a subscription today. Share Tweet. The technique has been used to enable women to postpone pregnancy to a later date. But that is very different from cryonics and cryogenic freezing, where human corps and bodies are stored at very low temperatures with the speculative hope that resection may be possible in the future.

One popular pop culture example is the resurrection of Captain America after staying on the ice for 70 years. However, the possibility of resurrecting a human body for real is still a futuristic fantasy. Something of that sort has been witnessed in Arizona, where more than cryogenically frozen people have been buried in the desert waiting for science to bring them back.

The Alcor Life Extensions Foundation, located just outside a luxury suburb in Phoenix, is the facility that is home to as many as bodies of people who were frozen at the time of death.