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Arizona foundation keeps it cool by freezing dead bodies in hopes of resurrecting them someday

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John 11:38-44 features the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. It’s a miraculous story about supernatural power restoring life after death. But what if science is closer to using its power to achieve its own Lazarus effect? The Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Arizona is using techniques from cryonics, freezing dead bodies to later be revived, in hopes of resurrecting those who have died—some even 50+ years ago.

Although cryonics is not a field the science world fully accepts, it uses similar techniques from the scientifically accepted study of cryogenics. Combinations of gases like nitrogen are transformed into a liquid to freeze human remains, all in hopes of being able to “defrost” the hundreds of currently frozen bodies across the globe with future technology that would one day allow life restoration. For prices ranging from $80,000 to $250,000, Alcor members, like the first known human to be legally frozen after death, have their entire bodies or heads with their brains cryogenically preserved. Although not as simple as freezing and defrosting your meal preps for the week, cryogenic techniques are already involved in many human tissue preservations like freezing human blood.

From Lazarus’ body as described in John 11:39 to the bodies we bury today, rotting flesh has  always been a reminder of the end of life in this world. If cryogenic science advances enough, everlasting life on Earth might just be a flash freeze away. 

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