Can Death Really Be Paused?
A German startup has recently launched such a strange service. They say that if someone wants, they can mummify their entire body after their death. The cost is not high. About two hundred thousand dollars. The purpose of this mummification is that maybe in the future, science will advance so much that they can be brought back to life. So many people think, we may die today, but in the distant future, it may be possible to see each other again.
The process is roughly like this. When a person's death is confirmed, within a short time, the company's team comes and slowly removes the normal water and other fluids from the body. Because if the body is frozen directly, small ice particles will form inside, which can burst the cells, and the inside of the body may be destroyed. So they fill the body with a special type of liquid that does not allow freezing and tries to protect the cells to some extent.
Then the entire body is placed in a very thick, hard, specially made, large tank. Inside this tank is a very cold substance called liquid nitrogen. The temperature of this substance is so low that the body remains almost frozen there. The company claims that it is possible to keep the body in the same state for years, even centuries. It is as if the body is stuck in a long pause; time is passing, but the body is no longer moving forward.
Those who pay for this service or show interest are actually relying on a hope. They think that maybe one day a time will come when aging can be stopped, serious diseases like today's cancer and heart attacks can be easily cured, and damaged organs can be repaired. If their frozen body is found in the future, scientists may be able to gradually bring the bodies back to normal and use advanced treatment and new technology to revive them. Some believe that today it is almost like buying a lottery ticket - you don't know if you will win or not, but they participate for a little hope.
However, not everyone sees the matter so simply. Many scientists and critics clearly say that so far, no frozen person has been brought back to life anywhere in the world. In other words, there is no example of the success of this work in reality. Everything now stands on ideas, hopes, and imagination. Whether the body will really be frozen healthy for so many years, how intact the internal cells will be, whether future people will even want to wake up these frozen people - there are no sure answers to these questions. Again, many questions arise from the moral side - whether it is right to keep someone like the
It is after death that their place will be in the future, and how society will accept them. There is a lot of debate about these.Beyond this, there is the question of money. The amount of money required to receive such services is beyond the reach of the common man. Therefore, many people think that it is mainly a luxury of the rich. Some say, "We do not get proper treatment even when we are alive, and someone is spending lakhs of taka to hope for the future after death" - this thought also creates anger among many. Others argue that new technology almost always comes into the hands of the rich first and then gradually becomes easier for the common man. So such services may also be cheaper in the future.
However, there is another psychological side to this story. Many people cannot accept the fear of death or the pain of being separated from loved ones. Some feel that there is so much left on the path of life, so many dreams unfulfilled, and that it seems unfair that everything has suddenly stopped. So the idea of keeping it in storage gives them a kind of mental comfort. As if they can assure themselves, “This is not the end. Maybe there is another possibility.”
Some think, “Even if I die, my children will still be there, my grandchildren will still be there, maybe many more generations. If one day I can come back, I will be able to see their future. I will be able to feel what the world will be like in a few hundred years.” This natural curiosity of human life, the desire to see a new era, also pushes people towards such decisions. Many have the temptation to see with their own eyes what the cities, technology, society of the future, everything will look like.
On the other hand, this whole process is also changing people's concept of life and death to some extent. Previously, death meant the absolute end; there was no way back. But now some people have started to think of death as a kind of “pause” – as if we are stopping now, and can start again later. Although science has not yet reached that point in reality, it is clear that people’s thinking is changing. Some even see new religious or philosophical questions in this: “What does life really mean, just breathing, or a continuum of memories, relationships, and feelings?”
Socially, this technology has also created a new discussion. Some believe that such initiatives are pushing people away from the present life – they are waiting for an imaginary future instead of living today. Others say that people have always dreamed about the future, and all the great discoveries have come from those dreams. So it is not right to completely dismiss such imagination.
However, everything is still uncertain. Maybe after a hundred years, no one will be able to wake up these frozen bodies, maybe the science of that time will change so much that today's entire system will seem outdated. And indeed, one day, scientists may find a solution that seems impossible to us today. The mobile phones, the Internet, and artificial satellites that we now consider very common were once miracles like stories.
But one thing is very clear – human imagination, desire, and faith in the future never stop easily. People try again and again, make mistakes, and start anew. Because of that indomitable effort, today's impossible things become tomorrow's reality.
This technology for freezing bodies is probably a step on that long path – a dreamy, risky, but hopeful step. No one can say for sure today whether it will really force us to think about death in a new way one day, or whether it will remain confined to imagination. But this much is understood: this is a powerful example of how much people are willing to do, how much money they spend, and how far they are willing to think in the hope of a second life.
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