New association wants to build facility to store 500 frozen human bodies in the Madrid Sierra

New association wants to build facility to store 500 frozen human bodies in the Madrid Sierra
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By m.p. - Aug 30, 2011 - 7:06 PM
They have already been in contact with the Mayor of El Escorial

El Escorial Town Hall. Photo – Hakan Svensson/Wikipedia

A cryonics association wants to build a new facility in the Sierra of Madrid with the capacity to maintain 500 cryogenically frozen human bodies until such a time as advances in science will allow them to be brought back to life.

It’s understood that the association has already been in contact with the Mayor of El Escorial, Antonio Vicente, who told El Mundo newspaper that he doesn’t see it as a ‘crazy idea’, but warned that there could be restrictions given the town’s location within the Guadarrama National Park.

Vicente said he is prepared to study the proposal once there is more concrete information and documentation.

The recently created Ibero-American Cryopreservation Association has chosen the Madrid Sierra because of its central location, the low risk of earthquake and the cool temperatures. The association’s president, Francisco Roldán, said the facility, which would include a research laboratory, would provide individual capsules with liquid nitrogen at 196 degrees below zero.

Bodies could be maintained almost indefinitely, he said.

The facility would provide between 250 and 300 direct and indirect jobs, and would need investment of up to 50 million €.

Cryopreservation of human bodies is not however currently permitted under Spanish legislation.

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