Russian cryonics provider KrioRus is starting to receive the sort of mixed press attention that Alcor did five years ago or so: “‘I don’t ever want to die… It wouldn’t suit me,’ said Innokenty Osadchy. Fortunately, the 35-year-old investment banker is certain he has found a loophole out of death. Osadchy is ready to pay a small fortune to freeze his brain until future technology allows him to continue his life – after being transplanted into a new body and resuscitated. ‘Why do I have to die in a couple decades? I don’t see any logic in this. It won’t be another life, it’ll be the continuation of my life. I don’t ever want to die ever. Not in a year, not in a million years.’ Osadchy and other clients of Russian cryonics company KrioRus believe the brain operates like a computer hard-drive and its contents can be frozen and stored for the future. ‘We know that the personality is stored in the brain. So when a person’s body is old, there’s no reason to keep it,’ said Danila Medvedev, who runs KrioRus, the first cryonics outfit outside the United States. … Since its 2005 launch, KrioRus has been building new vats, in anticipation of the 30 clients, like Osadchy, with whom it already has contracts.”

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