I spent £100k to FREEZE my family when they die in bid to...

DENNIS Kowalski spends his days surrounded by dozens of bodies stored in a giant warehouse - and has spent thousands of pounds to eventually join them. Alongside his wife and three children, the hopeful entrepreneur will one day be added to the sea of frozen corpses, who are all waiting to be brought back to life. Dennis, 55, says he has "nothing to lose" and has splashed £110,000 on freezing himself and his family when they die, in the hope they'll someday be able to come back to life.

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He is the president of Cryonics Institute where he has a warehouse full of complete frozen bodies, heads and even animals. Cryonics Institute is an American foundation, based in Michigan, which specialises in all things cryonics - the practice of deep-freezing bodies in the hope future scientific advances may enable them to be revived. It is just one of hundreds of such companies spread across the world, including in the UK, urging people to sign up to the hopeful process.

Image Credit: The Sun [Cryonics Institute cryogenic storage unit with a human figure inside.]

Despite the determined push to attract more people to enrol in the wacky treatment, no one has actually been able to revive a dead body yet. The Kowalski family - made up of Dennis, his wife Maria and their three sons Jacob, 25, Danny, 23, and James, 21, - are all set to be preserved in a vat of liquid nitrogen when they pass away. The Wisconsin family are backing the world of cryogenics to develop in the decades to come and reach a point where supposed immortality is within reach.

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Dennis told The Sun the reason why the family are all on board is because they feel they have "nothing to lose and everything to gain". He said: "My entire family is signed up and ready to take a chance at life extension. "They believe in long, healthy and prosperous living so it was an easy decision for them.". The controversial process of being cryo-preserved has been dubbed a "lottery ticket to immortality" by some hopeful minds.

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The goal is for people with terminal illnesses to one day be woken up at a time when such diseases are curable - leading them to ultimately cheat death. Currently, more than 264 frozen bodies are currently floating inside giant thermos bottles filled with liquid nitrogen across the globe. In these chambers, the bodies are all attached to a stretcher and wrapped up in several layers of insulating material.

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The bodies are kept upside down to protect the heads in case of a leak and to keep the brain as cold as possible. Some of the morgues even have just heads inside the nitrogen vats which come in at a cheaper price than a full body conservation. Others are storing away animals with many simply being beloved pets such as dogs, cats and even turtles. While creatures such as endangered jaguars, eastern black rhinos, mountain chicken frogs, and Javan green magpies have been cryogenically frozen for specialised research purposes.

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Elsewhere, the brain of a rabbit and kidneys of rats are also stored inside the nitrogen chambers. Some of the corpses have been lying in situ for decades and are set to stay frozen potentially for centuries more until a solution is found to solve their health woes. But the goal of cryo is still a long shot, with any chance of coming back to life still far from a guarantee. Founded in 1976, Dennis' Cryonics Institute is the world's leading cryogenic facility.

Image Credit: The Sun [Illustration of cryonics process: body preparation, cooling, and storage in liquid nitrogen.]

The entrepreneur and proud dad says the goal of the company 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 added. "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.

Image Credit: The Sun [Rows of large industrial tanks with blue-lit walkways between them.]

"The grave is your only real alternative and that's complete oblivion.". He hopes to one day "defeat man's greatest enemy" which is how he describes death. The team at Cryonics Institute currently have dozens of people in suspension - meaning they are inside chambers waiting to be revived. Another 2,000 people have also signed up to the service to be rushed into the warehouse on the day of their deaths.

Image Credit: The Sun [Cryonics Institute facility with medical equipment and cryogenic chamber.]

People have even paid for a team of stand-by technicians who are on alert for your eventual death. Their job is to ensure your corpse is perfectly preserved from the moment you die to the point of being placed inside the Dewar vat. This means they will be the first to know about a death and instantly launch protocols to keep the body fresh by rushing to the person's side. Despite the growing number of cryogenic hopefuls, Dennis isn't satisfied with the number of people signed up.

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He said: "I think our numbers are incredibly and woefully low as to what they should be. "I think more people join crazy cults and are signed up for the Flat Earth Society, or chasing Bigfoot in the woods.". When a cryo warehouse receives a fresh corpse they immediately put the body in icy water to keep it cold. The person is also given blood thinners to stop their blood from thickening and becoming impossible to reverse.