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Tech workers are paying $7,000 to freeze their stem cells in hope of extending life
| Jiang is one of the earliest testers of Forever Labs, which extracts and stores young adults' stem cells to potentially combat age-related illnesses like arthritis and heart disease. The company has the ambitious plan to counter "aging itself."
Forever Labs is a graduate of the start-up accelerator program Y Combinator and has raised $2 million in funding to expand its service to more states.
| Jiang, a former investment banker who worked on health-care deals, is also an early investor in the start-up.
It's not a cheap endeavor. Forever Labs charges $7,000 for a plan that includes the procedure and lifetime storage. Jiang says that's the price tag for longevity.
"If you are able to extend your life by even five years, I mean I think you would pay something to do that," he said.
| https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/04/tech-workers-are-paying-forever-labs-7000-to-freeze-stem-cells.html
| I heard something about preserving your umbilical cord for its undifferentiated stem cells to use later in life.
| Hope that forever labs don't go bankrupt before Jiang need his stem cells
| And then next month you're hit by a car or choke on your meal or any of the other million things that could happen.
What does future labs do with your money and stem cells if you die before you can use them?
Immortality has always been the pursuit of the foolish.
| >>273871
I don't care what they do with my money or stem cells if I'm dead. It was at least wroth a try.
| Did they use linux doe?
| And so, it begins
| >>273871
From the dawn of human existence you always searched for ways to extend life.Good thing that only they high society would be able to afford such a thing.I dont want more than 7 bil humans walking on earth.Fucking homo sapiens sapiens virus.
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| Start-up investor Li Jiang just turned 30, and now he can't stop thinking about his own mortality.
For Jiang, who's based in San Francisco, living longer isn't just about eating healthy and exercising regularly. Last month, he cryogenically froze his stem cells, in the hopes of someday injecting them back into his body.