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They pay over $200,000 to have their bodies frozen after death, expecting to be brought back to life in the future

2026-09-13 18:30:32Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

They pay over $200,000 to have their bodies frozen after death, expecting to be

In an ordinary industrial building in Holbrook, a small town in New South Wales, Australia, seven human bodies are preserved with an unusual hope: that future technology can one day bring them back to life.

Southern Cryonics is currently the only cryopreservation center in the Southern Hemisphere. It opened in 2023 and offers clients what executives describe as “a life extension opportunity.”

Inside the building are large steel tanks, called dewars, filled with liquid nitrogen. The bodies are stored upside down at a temperature of about minus 196 degrees Celsius. The center currently has seven people cryopreserved.

The procedure costs more than A$200,000. The center says the initial stabilization phase costs about A$60,000, with another A$150,000 paid for long-term preservation. The company recommends that clients try to finance the procedure through life insurance.

They pay over $200,000 to have their bodies frozen after death, expecting to be

The process is not simply placing a body in a freezer. After death, the team attempts to cool the body and use preservatives that aim to reduce the damage caused by ice crystal formation. The body is then placed in liquid nitrogen for indefinite storage.

The idea of ​​cryopreservation is based on an assumption: that in the not-so-distant future, medicine may be able to repair damage to the body, cure the disease that caused death, and restore brain function.

But today there is no technology that can do this.

Peter Tsolakides, the head of Southern Cryonics, himself does not promise that clients will be brought back to life. He subjectively estimates that the chance of this being possible after about 250 years is only about 10%.

They pay over $200,000 to have their bodies frozen after death, expecting to be

Scientists are much more skeptical. They argue that freezing a whole body causes extensive cellular damage, and that even if the physical structure were preserved, the fundamental problem would remain: the disease or injury that killed the person does not disappear simply because the body is frozen.

One analogy used by experts is that of a frozen strawberry. When it thaws, its structure is damaged and it becomes soft. In the human body, the process is many times more complex.

The Holbrook facility was also chosen because of its location between Sydney and Melbourne and because the area is considered relatively low-risk for earthquakes and flooding. The supply of liquid nitrogen is also important, as the tanks need to be replenished regularly.

According to operators, there are only six such centers in the world and it is thought that around 1,000 people have been cryopreserved globally.

For critics, cryopreservation remains much closer to speculation than medicine. For people who choose to pay for it, however, the logic is different: even a very small chance of a second life seems greater than zero.

For now, the seven bodies at Holbrook continue to lie at minus 196 degrees Celsius, awaiting technology that does not yet exist.

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