Thermal Wombs (2019-2020)
Stine Deja

Worldwide around 400 whole bodies have been submerged in liquid nitrogen at minus 196 degrees Celsius awaiting advances in science so to be revived in the future. The Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Arizona, US, is one of the largest companies engaged in this type of cryopreservation. Thermal Wombs examines the motivations and beliefs of those buying this cryopreservation but also its social and ethical implications.

Alcor stores the bodies upside down in thermal sleeping bags to keep the heads cool for as long as possible in the unfortunate event of an emergency and the cooling system breaking down. But the technology to remove a body from cryogenic suspension does not yet exist. Some scientists claim that the problems are so complex that this will never happen either. Question is, does this file cryopreservation in man's never-ending quest for immortality? Or is it something we should all consider at some point, along with all the complications that come with it?