He’s Here To End Death - EP 90 Dr. Emil Kendziorra

A few years ago, some people put me in a van and drove me to the edge of Moscow. And by “the edge of Moscow,” I mean where things started to get a bit rural. We turned off a road and went toward what looked like a modest farmhouse with a shed. After exiting the van, we entered said shed and found two large metal containers that were full of human bodies and heads along with the bodies of many animals, including dogs, cats, and a hummingbird. Have a look.

These bodies were being cryopreserved with liquid nitrogen in the hope that they could be reanimated at some point in the future when science has advanced and more illnesses can be cured.

Cryopreservation/reanimation is not a new idea. It’s been contemplated in literature for hundreds of years. Alcor, perhaps the most well-known cryopreservation company, was founded way back in 1972. The field, though, has suffered from questionable science and been seen as a scientific backwater.

Our guest this week wants to add scientific, intellectual, and pragmatic rigor to the cryopreservation field or what he calls the biostasis field. He’s Dr. Emil Kendziorra, the founder and CEO of Tomorrow Bio.

Tomorrow Bio has a team that will show up at the end of life and prepare someone’s body for preservation and then store their body in a Swiss vault.

In this episode, we get into the mechanics behind Tomorrow Bio and the pros and cons of biostasis. Kendziorra is a sober, deep thinker on this topic and a great listen.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
5:08 Cryonics Without the Ice
8:45 Heads in a Russian Shed
12:26 Longevity's Backup Plan
19:39 The First Hours After Death
30:11 Funding a Second Life
37:15 Does Cryonics Actually Work?
43:40 Preserving Brains Without Bodies
50:52 Why Not Reverse Aging?
55:21 Can the Company Outlive You?
1:03:37 Waking Up Centuries Later
1:08:28 The Problem of Rewarming
1:15:14 Selling Hope Without Overselling Science
1:19:40 Would Longer Lives Be Better?
1:23:42 Elective Cryonics and Family Life