Two Rival Cryonics Firms Keep Stealing Each Others’ Frozen Human Brains

If the remains of the company are lost, there will be a dispute over the ownership of dozens of frozen brains.

In September, KrioRus founder Valerija Udalova took control of a number of the company's cryonic tanks by cutting through a metal wall and loading them with storage containers.

According to the Daily Beast, the two were never legally married, but referred to each other as husband and wife.

According to the Daily Beast, there is a bizarre spat that doesn't paint a rosy picture of an already questionable practice.

Udalova was holding these patients hostage, while she argued that the seizure was justified.

When Futurism reached out to Udalova, she said the move was necessary for her business.

The dewars were almost full, but the demand was growing.

The bodies made their way back to the original warehouse. Udalova sent Chechnya bandits to my apartment to scare me into giving up control, according to the Daily Beast.

Udalova claims she wasn't behind that visit, but that it may have been some of her fans.

According to the report, Udalova took back control of the bodies late last year, with Medvedev claiming she damaged the tanks.

Russian law forbids anyone from owning another person's body, with Russian law enforcement operating in a regulatory vacuum.

The current location of the brains is not known.

At this point, that may not matter at all. They and the frozen bodies are likely to be slush at this point.

Hans Bozler, a Cryogenics expert from the University of Southern California, told the Daily Beast that a deterioration would be rapid after the tanks were moved.

The process of cryonically freezing patients is very damaging to live tissues.

The assistant professor at the Harvard Medical school told Futurism in an email last year that ice can destroy the cell's contents.

Bozler tends to agree.

He told the Daily Beast that taking something that has already been destroyed is hard to take.

They were Russia's Cryonics Power Couple. They are fighting over the frozen brains. The Daily Beast.

A woman is accused of stealing Cryogenically Preserved Human Bodies.

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