Cryonically Frozen People, My PEEPsicles, In Warming Times
Are these 200 people going to melt like their tech optimist dreams?
Today, many are cold, but few are frozen
The dream of Cryonics seems frozen in time
There are still approximately 200 human bodies in The Scottsdale Arizona facility, in metallic Dewars, in a bland building, along the edge of the Sonoran Desert.
A very small village of people, then, awaits the day when future scientists have the technology to reanimate their corpses, and in most cases, heads, to a brave new world.
Anyone who has seen Futurama knows the basics of freezing people (and/or the head of Richard Nixon). The pioneer company, Alcor, was the first high-tech group to take on the task. In the 1980s and 1990s, optimism was high. The future for science and biotech looked great. People were looking forward to a new millennium, and there was no overarching fear of global warming, plagues, nuclear war, and all its implications.
What then, became of the few who were frozen?
They are still there. Although beset by some legal challenges, technical upkeep troubles, and a less-interested, world, the two hundred “patients” are still present.
