Eternal life – Peter Thiel also dreams of it. The founder of the payment service PayPal and the big data company Palantir (which has employed ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz since the end of 2021) want to be frozen after his death. Supporters of so-called cryopreservation can also be found in Austria, but their chances of success are more than doubtful.
In a 2016 interview with Inc magazine, Peter Thiel revealed that he was obsessed with the thought of death and would do anything to avoid his own. According to “Forbes,” the investor, currently worth about $4.3 billion, stated at the time that they wanted to participate in a series of clinical trials by a California company called Ambrosia, which offered a rejuvenating cure through the transfusion of blood plasma received from young people under 25. year.
However, according to Techcrunch, it never got to that point. Ambrosia CEO Jesse Karmazin admitted on the US website that Thiel never contacted him. In the meantime, the 55-year-old may have found another way to stay alive longer: in the podcast “Honestly” by American journalist Bari Weiss, Thiel now admitted that he wanted to be frozen after his death.
experiment with an uncertain outcome
“I don’t necessarily expect it to work, but I think it’s something we should try,” said Thiel. He’s not alone: The Alcor Life Extension Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in the US state of Arizona that claims to be a world leader in so-called cryonics, currently has 205 “patients” and more than 1,400 members, according to the official website, waiting to be put into cryosleep.
Source: Krone
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