
The footage from the Tomorrow Bio company looks completely ordinary from the outside, but if you take a look inside, you'll feel like you're watching a science fiction movie.
There they keep the frozen bodies of dead people whose loved ones hope that technology will one day advance enough to resurrect them.
Cryogenic freezing is not new, availability is limited and expert opinions are divided.
For $222,000 (plus a monthly fee of $55), the company will freeze the body of a person who has died using sophisticated technology.
Preserving one's brain, under the same conditions, costs about $83,000, according to the New York Post.
"I believe that in my lifetime, and I am currently 40 years old, I will witness the revival of complex organisms," said the company's co-founder, Fernando Azevedo Pinheiro.
He adds that cryopreservation offers hope and a sense of security, offering a possible route to life extension.
The Berlin-based company claims to have frozen six dead and five pets so far, while they have a waiting list of 650 names.
"None of them expect to die soon," Pinheiro said.
How does the system work?
The cryopreservation process begins after the patient is declared legally dead. The bodies are transported in specially equipped vehicles that function as "mobile surgical rooms".
Body fluid is replaced with a substance similar to antifreeze to prevent irreversible tissue damage from the cold.
The temperature drops to -190 degrees Celsius, for more than a week, before the body is stored in a long steel chamber that is filled weekly with liquid nitrogen.
The company has centers across Europe, including Berlin, Zurich and Amsterdam, as well as one in New York.
If "Tomorrow Bio: goes bankrupt in the future, i.e. disappears from the market, the frozen bodies are handed over to the sister organization "Tomorrow Patient Care Foundation".
The company claims that the invested money, which may remain after the revival of their customers, is immediately returned.