In a nondescript warehouse in country NSW, the dead will soon be stored, head down, feet up, awaiting resurrection. 7NEWS
Retired marketing specialist Peter Tsolakides is chairman and one of the founders and directors of Southern Cryonics, the non-profit company behind the Holbrook facility.
The NSW site is small by comparison. Stage one can only take 40 bodies but with the addition of more warehouses that could swell to 600 in the distant future. Tsolakides agrees it’s a significant amount of money but as Southern Cryonics says on its website, people should remember they are “buying an experimental lifesaving treatment, not an expensive funeral”.
In the event things don’t go to plan, Southern Cryonics has offered assurances to NSW health authorities and the local council, which both consider the Holbrook site to be a burial facility. His view is that it could be as little as 100 years before revival is possible “but nobody really knows”.