The new company has developed a way to keep the brain safe and sound for centuries. There is only one nuance: for this person you need to kill.
For anyone with $ 10,000 to spare, there is a new and wildly described way to cheat (possibly) death. True, for this you need to be killed.
Nectome, a Silicon Valley startup founded by Y Combinator, is somewhat similar to cryogenic projects. The idea is simple: if you save your body or brain indefinitely, then someday technology will reach such a level that it can resurrect you to life. There is, however, one big problem. Cryogenic companies freeze the body after a person has died. But Nectome needs to kill you, as the technology requires you to be alive during the saving process.
Nectome uses a chemical cocktail that turns your brain cells into a piece of frozen glass. Thus, all nerve connections are preserved almost forever, so that future scientists can accurately recreate them. But in order for all nerve connections to be fixed intact, the person must be alive during the procedure.
Thus, Nectome is raising money for a kind of euthanasia that is legal in the state of California. The company hopes terminally ill patients choose to end their lives in a similar way, which in theory could help them resurrect in the future. True, while Nectome is still working with lawyers so that their employees do not go to jail for their activities.
Nikolay Kudryavtsev