A start-up says it can back up your brain. However, there’s one small catch. - The Washington Post

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A start-up says it can back up your brain. However, there’s one small catch.
By Gene Marks
Storing dead brains is not a new business. There’s a company in Arizona that right now holds more than 150 bodies and 
heads — including the head of Red Sox great Ted Williams — in liquid nitrogen with the hopes of a future reawakening. 
But now there’s a start-up that says it can do all of this and better: it can make a complete backup of your mind. 
However, there’s just one catch: you have to die first.

The company, called Nectome, says its proprietary chemical solution can keep the brain intact for hundreds — even 
thousands of years. “You can think of what we do as a fancy form of embalming that preserves not just the outer details 
but the inner details,” Robert McIntyre, the company’s founder told the MIT Technology Review.

But here’s the thing: the brain’s got to be fresh and the patient must be alive for its embalming chemicals to do their 
job. For this to happen a patient must be willing to die in order for the process to complete. The product is “100 
percent fatal,” McIntyre admitted. “The user experience will be identical to physician-assisted suicide.”

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