Inside Alcor’s bid to pause death and the questions still unanswered

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (InvestigateTV) — People frozen for years then thawed out and awake in a different time. It’s a common scene in popular science fiction movies.But this isn’t the script of a blockbuster, a nonprofit in Arizona is attempting to make it a reality. Since the 1970s, Alcor has specialized in cryonics, defined as the practice of preserving life by pausing the dying process using subfreezing temperatures.Alcor is betting on future science to do what today’s cannot.In an unassuming building tucked inside an industrial section of Scottsdale, a small team at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation is working on something that can sound like science fiction: preserving people, and even pets, at ultra-low temperatures with the hope that future medicine may one day be able to repair and revive them.For Alcor member and author Rick Lemler, the idea isn’t about certainty. It’s about possibility.“It’s something I choose to believe,” Lemler said. “It’s something I believe in and am willing t