The technology of cryopreservation
The technology of cryopreservation originated in the 1950s when researchers first proposed a way of preserving living cells for many years. The more recent development of controlled cooling techniques, used successfully to store blood, sperm, eggs, and other biomaterials for several decades, has brought cryopreservation to a new level.
Nowadays, with the development of cryoprotective techniques, instant freezing has become practically safe for biomaterials — freezing damage of cells is prevented, and tissue can be stored safely for many years. However, this technology still has not received widespread popularity. Could it be so because much is done to advance freezing but not unfreezing of clients?
Let’s say, the cryopreservation technology became so advanced that you have successfully preserved your entire brain for long-term storage, but what are the guarantees that you are going to get reanimated in the future? It is, for the most part, a guessing game:
Who, when and under what circumstances will unfreeze you?
Would it be the same company responsible for the preservation of biological material, or some other?
Who will make the final decision about your unfreezing?
Who will control the process?
What warranty do you get?
Who will pay for this?
In what circumstances will you be reanimated? Would you be able to prevent getting reanimated in a hostile environment or at unfortunate times?
Will you be able to integrate and become a full member of the new society?
In the future, the companies that would offer “eternal life” could promise a wide variety of reanimation services to their customers: for example, “body” transplantation, or “mind uploading”, but how can we let people living today use it too? And what is the point of preserving yourself with no guarantees of successful reanimation?
We at Eternal Trusts aim to turn this guessing game into a predictable, streamlined mechanism. Our platform provides for the “unfreezing” of customers — we are creating a reliable, autonomous system, where smart contracts would be in full control over the fulfillment of the contract, and the most important thing is — the subject of such contract will not only prescribe indefinite storage of biomaterial, but also bringing the client back to life.
