People deal with a terminal illness in many different ways. Most need the support of friends and family to see them through their final days, and hopefully get to do a few of the things they wanted to achieve before they die. Kim Suozzi viewed things a bit differently and decided to look to the future instead by having her body frozen.
In March of 2011 Kim was diagnosed with a highly aggressive brain cancer known as Glioblastoma multiforme. Although she received treatment, there was no getting around the fact she didn?t have long to live.
By August last year she was beginning to lose function on the right side of her body and was given six months to live. At the same time, she announced that it was her wish to by ?cryopreserved? after death. She explained that by knowing that procedure was going to happen to her body she could face death ?a little more at ease.? It also offered her hope that someday doctors may figure out how to revive people and offer her a cure.
The problem with cryogenic preservation is the fact it isn?t cheap. Kim needed around $35,000 to make it happen, but didn?t have the funds. So she went on a fund raising campaign and asked for help on Reddit. By the end of August she?d managed to get $7,000 from 130 donors and the help of the Society for Venturism. It was well short of the target, but the non-profit cryogenics organization, the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, stepped in and started their own campaign to raise the rest of the money.
Kim died on January 17, but the total donations turned out to be enough for the cryopreservation procedure to go ahead. Her body was transported to the Alcor facility and is now frozen, awaiting that future revival and cure.
Kim made a video back in August for her blog explaining her situation and offering her thanks to those that were at the time helping her raise the money she needed. Who knows, several decades from now she could be back on camera telling us what it was like being frozen and explaining how the world has changed.
More at Huffington Post and Alcor
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