Nectome aims to preserve people within minutes after legal death in order to preserve the body and brain to an extremely high level of quality.
This level of comprehensive detail allows for tracing the connections of the neurons and synapses throughout the brain. Modern neuroscience suggests that the person’s memory, skills, and personality remain intact within that structure. We hope that one day it will become possible to revive people preserved in this manner.
Much like preservation of DNA was possible well before anyone could read a single genome, we can verifiably preserve the body and brain long before it becomes possible to decipher or fully understand the underlying biology.
We believe the canon of scientific and clinical literature supports the proposition that our preservation protocol can preserve an individual for hundreds of years in sufficient detail that revival is a theoretical possibility in the long term.
For people at the end of their lives, preservation is the last experimental option remaining that may allow recovery in the future. In this sense it is a life-affirming expression of the will to endure.