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> Come with me if you want to live. – The Terminator > 'Close enough' only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. – Traditional After 10 years of research my company, Nectome, has created a new method for whole-body, whole-brain, human end-of-life preservation for the purpose of future revival. Our protocol is capable of preserving every synapse and every cell in the body with enough detail that current neuroscience says long-term memories are preserved. It's compatible with traditional funerals at room temperature and stable for hundreds of years at cold temperatures. The short version * We're making a non-Pascal's wager version of cryonics. * Our method is an end-of-life procedure for whole-body, whole-brain human preservation with the goal of eventual future revival. * Preservation occurs after legal death. * Even without the near-term possibility of revival we can be confident that preservation actually works. * We preserve the whole body, including the brain, at nanoscale, subsynaptic detail. We are capable of preserving every neuron and every synapse in the brain, and almost every protein, lipid, and nucleic acid within each cell and throughout the entire body is held in place by molecular crosslinks. * It works by using fixative to bind together the proteins and cryoprotectants to prevent ice over the long term, and cold temperature to extend the stable preservation time period to centuries. * We've won the Large Mammal Brain Preservation prize from the Brain Preservation Foundation for preserving animal brains, which involved examining the preserved synapses across many regions of the brain. * Unlike previous cryonics methods that required extremely low-temperature liquid nitrogen coolant, our method is stable for months at room temperature and compatible with traditional funeral practices. * Biology imposes a strict time limit for successful, real-world preservation: we've found that if you want high-fidelity preservation, you must start th