A British man plans to cheat death with a £40,000 operation to have his head chopped off so his brain can be frozen.
The procedure will see his brain wrapped in polyethylene and shipped off for storage.
DJ MacLennan, who will undergo this chilling procedure, believes it is just 'like a life insurance policy'.
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His brain will be cryogenically frozen in the hope that he will be resurrected in years in the future.
The self-proclaimed futurist's dead body will be filled with anti-freeze liquid before being plunged into ice water.
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His brain will be wrapped, submerged in alcohol and lowered into 120kg of ice in an insulated fibreglass box before being shipped to the Arizona desert.
it will then be frozen in liquid nitrogen and put into storage until science has advanced to the point at which he can be successfully brought back to life, reports the Press and Journal.
MacLennan, who previously said that he questioned why we send bodies into the ground to rot, will speak about his plans at an NHS-organised event in an ambitious bid to raise awareness of the issues that death can raise for families.
This is far too advanced for my brain to even contemplate and I don't wish to imagine a world where our brains can be frozen and stored so that we can out-live previous generations.
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The full-body procedure would have cost £75,000. Therefore, MacLennan has opted for the cheaper option to just freeze his brain instead of his whole body.
Even at the reduced price, I'm glad that most of us couldn't afford this option to 'cheat death' even if we wanted to.
To be honest, I would just buy a new car and enjoy the natural time I had left. But, then again, I have never been very good at investing into my future.
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