Philip Rhoades says 'if you're frozen, you're still in the game'. He hopes his late parents' consciousness can also return after their brain tissue was preserved in 2016.
Philip Rhoades hopes to be among first people to be frozen in a NSW cryonic facilityExperts have raised ethical concerns over liquid nitrogen preservation of corpses
The 71-year-old is an avid follower of the cryonics movement — the practice of deep-freezing human remains in the hope they will be thawed out and reanimated in the future.opened its doors last week in Holbrook, in the NSW Riverina.But as an inaugural employee of Southern Cryonics, he now hopes to become a member and be frozen at the facility when the time comes."There's a 70 to 80 per cent chance I'll end up at Holbrook," Mr Rhoades said.
Deakin University Human Ethics Advisory Group faculty chair Neera Bhatia described cryonics as a mixture of "hype and hope" that ethically posed "lots and lots of red flags". She said while there was an argument a person could make their own decisions about how they wanted remains to be disposed of, there were a range of ethical concerns that needed to be considered.
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