In the future will we be able to preserve bodies in ice and bring them back to life years later.

Question: In the future will we be able to preserve bodies in ice and bring them back to life years later.
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  body,
  future
Asked by martha to Jen, Jill, Mel, Phil, Stef on 15 Mar 2013.
- Jennifer Paxton answered on 15 Mar 2013:
  
  Maybe! Some people definitely think that this will be possible. It might seem far fetched at the moment but I bet people didn’t think it would be possible to do half the things we do now!
- Stefan Piatek answered on 21 Mar 2013:
  
  Ah a great question, in theory we could someday. The trick is to freeze someone down without the ice expanding and bursting their cells. Then working out how to thaw them without damaging them is really difficult.
  
  That being said, I can freeze down the cells that I grow and store them in liquid nitrogen so it’s just working out the difficult thing of how to do it with a whole animal!

Question: In the future will we be able to preserve bodies in ice and bring them back to life years later.