Man spends £100,000 so his wife and children can be frozen after death

A father-of-three says he and his family agreed to be frozen after death because they have 'nothing to lose and everything to gain'.

Dennis Kowalski, 55, spent £110,000 so he, his wife Maria and their three sons Jacob, 25, Danny, 23 and James, 21, could be cryogenically preserved at the end of their lives.

The process involves storing the body in a tank of ultra-cold liquid nitrogen as soon as possible after death.

The current scientific understanding is that organ damage will irreversibly kill a living person.

The consensus among experts is that reviving a corpse that has undergone this process is impossible.

But supporters of the technology, known as cryonics, hope future discoveries will prove the naysayers wrong.

Some have decided to call it a “lottery ticket for immortality” – in other words, it’s worth taking a gamble, even if the odds of success are slim.

“My whole family has signed up and are willing to take the risk of living longer,” Mr Kowalski, originally from Michigan, US, told The Sun.

“They believe in living a long, healthy and prosperous life, so it was an easy decision for them.”

The 55-year-old has quite a few interests in the game – as president of the Cryonics Institute, he has overseen the freezing of more than 100 bodies.