Becoming a Patient
Becoming a Suspended Life patient is a major decision. The first step is educating yourself on cryonic preservation and about Suspended Life. You can read more on both of these issues elsewhere on this website. Feel free to conduct your own research and confer with your end-of-life planners.
Consider becoming a Suspended Life patron at whatever level of commitment works for you. Your support will help fund our continuing research into cryonic preservation. We will also keep you abreast of developments at Suspended Life. And patrons receive priority during times of restricted capacity.
When you think you may wish to proceed enrolling yourself or a loved one in our cryonic preservation program, contact us for a free 30-minute consultation. At this point, you should review your will. When you are ready to enroll as a Suspended Life patient, we will provide a contract for your review. While our standard contract is clearly written, take your time reading through it.
You may wish to fund your enrollment fee by naming Suspended Life as a beneficiary. You should also consider creating a Living Trust to fund expected costs that will arise post reanimation.
The Process of Patient Care
The preservation process can begin as soon as seconds after a death certificate is signed. A client can authorize their next of kin to notify a nearby hospital staff to cool down a patient’s body with ice bags.
The frozen body is then delivered to the Suspended Life facility. The faster and more completely frozen the body, the better the preservation and the more likely the revival.
Suspended Life uses a proprietary non-toxic cryoprotectant to perfuse its patients before they are frozen. This proprietary solution minimizes the crystallization of bodily fluids which could otherwise damage cells.
Patients that are at liquid nitrogen temperatures (-196˚C) can be in that state for scores of years. They remain in this state until cures for the diseases that caused their legal deaths are discovered.
When reanimation becomes viable, the bodies will be warmed up by using an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine to warm up and oxygenate the blood. Carbon dioxide is also removed during this process. In some cases, 3D printed organs or engineered organs will be inserted into the body. Other medical procedures will be administered as needed.
