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Inside Europe's only cryonics company
The Russian town of Sergiev Posad is home to Europe's only cryonics company - the science of preserving dead bodies in the hope of bringing them back to life.
Its co-owner Danila Medvedev explains why immortality seems both "desirable and possible" to some Russians.
(Photo: Danila Medvedev - co-owner of Europe's only cryonics company CryoRus in the Russian town of Sergiev Posad. Credit: Michael Innes, BBC)
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