Father Spends $140,000 to Sign His Whole Family Up to Be Frozen in Cooling Chambers When They Die, in the Hope They Can Be Woken up in the Future, to Have a “Second Chance at Life”

At a cost of $140,000, Dennis Kowlaski joined his wife and three sons for a chance at a life after legal death. Kowalski is the president of the Cryonics Institute, where human bodies are preserved in a vat of liquid nitrogen after they are legally declared dead. The hope is that the body can be unfrozen and repaired in the future. 

See Claudia Tanner, Father Spends $140,000 to Sign His Whole Family Up to Be Frozen in Cooling Chambers When They Die, in the Hope They Can Be Woken up in the Future, to Have a “Second Chance at Life”, DailyMail.com, December 18, 2017.