Freezing the human head, to be affordable in 10 years

Would you want to freeze your HEAD after you die so you could one day bring it back to life?

The controversial cryonic preservation technique which means freezing the human head so it can come back to life could become common practice in 10 YEARS time.

Advocates see it as a miracle procedure to cheat death, and freezing your head after you die could soon become an affordable option it has been claimed.

The process which is known as cryonics is thought to be a way of preserving enough of your personality, intellect and memories to bring you back to life.

One UK company believes the cost of the procedure will rapidly drop over the next decade, to just £5,000 ($6,572) for 250 years, helping make it a common practice. 

Stem Protect is a Nottingham-based firm that specialises in cryopreservation of stem cells, to protect information about the body which can be used for medical purposes while the person is still alive.

Such procedures are becoming more commonplace, and the technology involved is essentially a smaller scale version of its more headline grabbing relative.

Experts at Stem Protect are convinced that cryonics will play a big role in the future.

There are currently only three facilities in the world that offer full head, body and other forms of cyropreservation.

The cheapest, Russian based KrioRus, offers 'neuropreservation' for £10,000 ($13,145), which involves freezing just the brain.

Stem Protect estimates that costs could more than halve over the next five to ten years.