• Question: Can you freeze someone and bring them back to life?

    Asked by gooner1802 to Asif, Laura, Lena, Sean, Viv on 16 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Laura Waters

      Laura Waters answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      Not yet but lots of people have paid to be frozen in case we figure out how to do it. There is a myth that Walt Disney was frozen but when he died they hadn’t started doing it!

    • Photo: Lena Ciric

      Lena Ciric answered on 18 Mar 2012:

      Not as far as I know. Freezing and defrosting a body would burst a lot of your cells. I think a better way to do it would be to clone your DNA and make a new being.

    • Photo: Sean Murphy

      Sean Murphy answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      During IVF treatments human embryos are frozen, to be implanted into the mother at a later date. So far this is only successful with tiny embryos, it gets very difficult the larger you get. It is possible to freeze your stem cells, many people do this just in case they have health problems in the future.

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