Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours. Today, Frozen for the Future, find out how people are seeking immortality by signing up to freeze their bodies after legal death, hoping for future reanimation.

Sunday, November 23rd on my TV program Full Measure, a half-hour special on longevity,

from cutting-edge trends to the latest research. One of my stories will focus on

the hope of a future where death is no longer the end.

Alcor is a scientific research and educational laboratory that focuses on the cryopreservation

or long-term storage of human remains for various research purposes.

I'm fascinated by this idea of freezing your body for the future,

and I first did a story on this, gosh, over 30 years ago when I was working for CNN, because I also

think it's fascinating to learn about the types of people who sign up for this type of service.

Hundreds of patients are being stored in liquid nitrogen on site at the Arizona facility,

maintained at about, I'm told, minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit.

The blood is replaced with cryoprotectants to prevent what I guess we might colloquially call

freezer burn, aiming to preserve biological structures for future, as they say, reanimation.

James Arrowwood heads up Alcor Life Extension Foundation. This is the nonprofit that runs Alcor and the

facility that's pushing the boundaries of life and death.

He also says that Alcor's research could do good things in the near future beyond this hope of future reanimation.

He says the research could revolutionize organ transplants and serve other medical research purposes.

Here is my interview with James Arrowwood.

How expensive is the process?

Let's say I wanted to sign up today and either cryopreserve head only or the whole body? What would you tell me?

When it comes to expense, a lot of people think this is only for billionaires, but that's not correct. Most people, including myself, fund this with life insurance. So even as the president, I don't get a cryopreservation for free. I have to pay for it. If you get the right kind of life insurance is about the cost of a funeral. By the time you pay premium is about 30 to 50K. The cost on paper if you paid full price would be 80,000 for neuro or about 220,000 for whole body. And I say about because it varies a little bit if you live out of the country. Most of that money, about 140,000 on the 220 goes to long-term trust.

So I don't get to use it for operations or research.

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