Man who's spent £100k to 'freeze family when they die' explains why they've signed up to be stuck in time

A father-of-three has spent £100k on what he calls a 'lottery ticket to immortality'.

Dennis Kowalski is the president of Cryonics Institute, a Michigan-based foundation which specialises in deep-freezing bodies with the hope of future revival.

The American company has a warehouse full of bodies that have been frozen in chambers full of liquid nitrogen.

And Kowalski claims his wife Maria and their three sons Jacob, 25, Danny, 23, and James, 21, are all on board with the idea.

Dennis Kowalski is the president of Cryonics Institute (Cryonics Institute)

"My entire family is signed up and ready to take a chance at life extension," he told The Sun.

"They believe in long, healthy and prosperous living so it was an easy decision for them."

The Cryonics Institute president says the goal of the foundation is to 'try to alleviate suffering and pain and to help restore life whenever possible'.

"I would give everything I had to bring back family friends and loved ones, even if the chance is small. So I think what I'm doing is fighting the good fight," he explained.

"You get can buried or cremated and we know what happens to those people - they won't ever be repaired, rejuvenated, or reversed, back into a healthy age.

Dennis Kowalski, his wife and three children will be placed in a deep-freeze body chamber when they die (Cryonics Institute)

"The grave is your only real alternative and that's complete oblivion."

However, according to James Arrowood, the president and CEO of Alcor - a non profit cryonics lab in Arizona - there are still a lot of scientific advances needed.

"We need advancements in the biochemicals used for preservation in liquid nitrogen," he explained to LADbible.

"We also need advancements in the mechanical engineering of the equipment needed to thaw vitrified organs.

"The existing state-of-the-art in chemicals still needs improvements because it prevents, but does not entirely eliminate, ice formation."

The chambers deep-freeze the bodies with the hope of future revival (Cryonics Institute)

Arrowood added: "Legal parameters are highly dependent on the country where the member/patient resides. In many countries, cryopreservation is legal because it is considered either a form of final disposition, much like burial, or it is a scientific donation to a non-profit (Alcor is a US non-profit, which is similar to a registered charity in many countries) for research.

"Our research is for the public good because if we solve the technical challenges, it likely will result in organ banking, which in turn could save 100s of people who die every day because they cannot get a matched organ donation in time.

"If organs can be stored, they can then be matched and transported safely to anywhere they need to go. Currently, many donated organs ‘die’ because they have not been transplanted within the 6 hour window, this might fix that problem."