A German cryonics start-up is offering a chance at a second life for the cost of a sports car. Is cryogenics within reach, or still an empty promise?
The ambulance parked up by a green in central Berlin is small, almost toy-like; a thick orange stripe across its sides, a tangle of wires looping from the ceiling.
It is one of three retrofitted and operated by Tomorrow.Bio, Europe’s first cryonics lab, whose mission is to freeze patients after death, and one day bring them back to life, all for a cost of $200,000 (£165,000).
At the perfusion pump is Emil Kendziorra, Tomorrow.Bio’s co-founder and a former cancer researcher who switched careers after finding progress in curing the disease “way too slow”. While the world’s first cryonics lab opened in Michigan almost half a century ago – triggering an enduring split between those who believe it is the future of humanity, and others who dismiss it as a non-starter – Kendziorra says that appetite is building.
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So far they have frozen (or cryopreserved) “three or four” people and five pets, with almost 700 more signed up. During 2025 they will expand their operations to cover the whole of the US.
