Grace Massoud published this article in MTV website:

What would you say if you were offered the chance to come back from the dead?

Would you want to invest in the chance to be revived once modern technology allows it? Because it seems we’re well underway, and I don’t know about you, but the concept leaves me skeptical of its feasibility.

A handful of companies worldwide are offering the services of cryonics. The major players in this space are: Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the oldest company of its kind in the world, and the Cryonics Institute in the US.

The process goes a little something like this: 

For a mere $222,603 (R3.9-million), you could secure a freezer with Tomorrow Bio, a German start-up company.

A stand-by specialized ambulance picks up the deceased in Europe and they get down to business after transporting them to the main facility in Switzerland. They preserve the body and brain mainly through liquid nitrogen to ensure cryopreservation. This is called Cryonic Suspension. The initial cause of death can be undone once science develops the method and you will rise from the dead, go figure!

"Personally, I believe that within my lifetime - I'm currently 40 years old - we may witness the safe cryopreservation and reanimation of complex organisms," co-founder Fernando Azevedo Pinheiro told the Daily Mail. 

6 bodies and 5 pets have already been cryopreserved, with over 650 having paid for the service and waiting for their final hour.  

Naturally, there has been ethical debate over cryonics. Still the concept is appealing to many, especially the wealthy who have inflated egos, and will definitely gather more aficionados in the coming years. 

Dr. James Bedford, a 73-year-old psychologist, was the first to be cryogenically frozen in 1967.

5,500 people have signed up since, 500 bodies already in storage mostly in the US, the most famous being the baseball legend Ted Williams who passed in 2002.

We can’t wait to witness if science will uphold its word and bring back the first human from beyond the grave.