Jäädytetty kuolemani

Jäädytetty kuolemani^[1] (literally 'My Frozen Death') or Perjantai-dokkari: Jäädytetty kuolemani (colloquial 'Friday documentary: My Frozen Death') is a 2023 YLE Perjantai-dokkari film that briefly tells the story of Henri Heinonen, a Finnish man, who has a cryonics agreement with Tomorrow Bio. Emil Kendziorra, CEO of Tomorrow Bio, describes the cryonics procedures.^[2]^[3]

Synopsis (in Finnish)Править

"Kuolema on surullinen asia, voisiko tiede tuoda meille oljenkorren?" Henri Heinonen syväjäädytetään kuolemansa jälkeen. Vielä ei tiedetä, miten jäädytetyt herätetään tulevaisuudessa henkiin. Ohjaaja: Saskia Vanhalakka.

Synopsis (in English)Править

"Death is a sad thing, could science bring us a lifeline?" Henri Heinonen is deep-frozen after his death. It is not yet known how the frozen ones will be brought back to life in the future. Director: Saskia Vanhalakka.

ScheduleПравить

Thursday 16-FEB-2023: About 10 minutes of video conferencing between Henri and Emil with YLE's team shooting Emil's side of the conversation in Germany.
Thursday 23-FEB-2023: About one and a half hours of interviewing at Henri's home.
Monday 6-MAR-2023: Shooting at Henri's home: writing articles on a computer, talking, and demonstrating some problems of smartwatches for vital sign monitoring (smartwatch scenes cut out from the final edition).
Tuesday 7-MAR-2023: Shooting at Henri's home: using a rotating device for photoshoots (pics never used anywhere), shooting the thermos bottle scene and leaving from the home scene, about 15 minutes of video conferencing between Henri and Emil with YLE's team now shooting Henri's side of the conversation.
Wednesday 8-MAR-2023: Shooting on top of Laajavuori and the streets of Jyväskylä; Henri, Saskia, and Jyrki visiting the café Wilhelmiina (no recordings/shootings were made at the café).
Thursday 9-MAR-2023: Shooting in and outside (the outside footage was not used in the final edition) of Agora, where the IT department of the University of Jyväskylä is located, and on the Ylistö bridge (the drone footage was not used in the final edition). A photoshoot session of Henri by Saskia was also done inside the Agora building and some of the photos of Henri were sent to the media for publication.
Friday 14-APR-2023: The Perjantai studio program “Perjantai: Valuuko elämä hukkaan?” with the Perjantai-dokkari documentary “Perjantai-dokkari: Jäädytetty kuolemani” were shown on YLE TV1 at 21:05. The studio guest was president Tarja Halonen.
Sunday 16-APR-2023: “Perjantai: Valuuko elämä hukkaan?” rerun was shown on YLE TV1 at 14:10.
Tuesday 18-APR-2023: “Perjantai-dokkari: Jäädytetty kuolemani” was shown first time separately from the Perjantai-studio on YLE TV1 at 21:30.
Tuesday 18-APR-2023: “Perjantai: Valuuko elämä hukkaan?” rerun was shown on YLE TV1 at 23:10.
Sunday 16-JUL-2023: “Perjantai-dokkari: Jäädytetty kuolemani” rerun was shown on YLE TV1 at 8:50.
Tuesday 17-SEP-2024: “Perjantai-dokkari: Jäädytetty kuolemani” rerun was shown on YLE TV1 at 21:30.

Sources for these pieces of information: Henri Heinonen, Finnish Cryonics Society's Toimintakertomus 2023, and telsu.fi.

TranslationsПравить

Translations by Daugator — 14.04.2023 01.01 Henri's Finnish comments:

1:25: "Death is a sad thing that touches us all. Some day we all will face it. Then you think if science could bring some last lifeline.
1:44: "Cryonics seems impossible at the moment, but the potential is very big in it. If you just could cryopreserve individual organs and return them functional, it would revolutionize organ transplants."
3:26: "It is an undeniably distressing thought, so what if you get bored. Life lasting billions of years, yes, it sounds a bit strange, but then, I don't really believe in that. I believe the universe too is not eternal. At some point life ends anyway."
3:55: "Eternal life oppresses many. For some cryonicists I have even tried to say that that may be what drives people away.
4:11: "A stereotype is that it's for the rich, but in principle, many can afford cryopreservation by getting life insurance. Whole-body cryopreservation can cost something like 200,000 euros. In a year it would be about 500 euros for life insurance."
4:36: "I myself have arrangements for cryonics. First with Alcor, but then I switched to Tomorrow Biostasis, because it is closer and I want to support European know-how anyway."
7:51: "Many feel quite negatively about cryonics. Maybe they don't take it so seriously. Resuscitation techniques, such as chest compressions and defibrillation, were probably treated with skepticism in the beginning.
8:06: "They must have wondered why you should press the chest of an inanimate person when that person has already "left" that body."
8:19: "What the law says then? As far as I understand, they don't do medical procedures for the dead. Many people probably aren't going to cool the body at that point. Often close relatives don't want it either. They tell to stop."
8:44: "New legislation would be needed, which would enable cryonics and make it legal and acceptable behavior.
8:56: "It would be enough at least for me to get a human structure to survive far into the future. Whether a person can be revived, is the sorrow of that time. It is not known at this time. It's still very speculative."

Rough translations or meanings of some parts of the studio programПравить

The documentary "Jäädytetty kuolemani" was first broadcast on TV during the YLE Perjantai studio program ("Perjantai: Valuuko elämä hukkaan") hosted by Sean Ricks.^[4] The former president of Finland, Tarja Halonen, gave an interview about "wasting your precious time" and the feelings related to that topic. She also briefly commented on the concept of deep freezing related to the documentary shown. Translations by Henri Tapani Heinonen — 15.04.2023 12.50

The setup:
- Blue pill: "The eternal life without any worries about the future."
- Red pill: "The regular mortal life that could end at any moment."
1:30: Tarja chooses the red pill because "most of us are members of the evangelical Lutheran church". She also tells Sean, "We don't need your pills because there is the concept of resurrection and eternal life."
16:40: "There is only one life". She argues that young people are more sensible (than her generation) that they are not concentrating too much on the working life and so because "there is only one life". She also mentions the Nordic model - helping people over tough times.
17:50: Presenting Saskia Vanhalakka, the director of "My Frozen Death".
27:40:
- Turquoise paper: "I want to become deep-frozen."
- White paper: "I want a natural death."
- There are, maybe, half a dozen turquoise papers showing (not zero).
29:12:
- Sean: "Tarja, you chose the natural life, not cryonics. You have five grandchildren. What if someone of those would say, 'Granny, please, think about it'?"
- Tarja: "I would say it is the law of life. It is the law of human life that we are born, and we will die in most cases in a way that we cannot decide about it. ... I understand the concept of eternal life is important because of the psychology of humans. ..."
31:50:
- Tarja: "The idea in that documentary is scary! ... I would compare it to Sleeping Beauty, who sleeps for a hundred years. ... The prince will kiss Sleeping Beauty back to life."
32:18:
- Tarja: "What would the princess feel when the world is completely different?"
32:23:
- Sean: "I am often thinking about the same. Would it be that great after all?"
32:43:
- Sean: "Are you afraid of death?"
- Tarja: "Of course. The unknown scares me. I believe everybody is afraid. To me, at least, it is not indifferent. The existential void and the thing that you do not exist anymore is the scariest thing."
33:40:
- Sean: "Does man have a moral right to change the course of nature? In such a primal manner. Life is made longer all the time. Is that against nature?"
- Tarja: "I haven't thought about it. The whole thing feels unnatural. I wouldn't want to deep freeze myself for 400 years. It is more common, in Finnish discussion, to think about the ethical rights that someone would get medical aid to end their life that is, according to them, painful and hopeless. Let's take the Netherlands and Switzerland as examples, like in the documentary. Those countries have arranged things further than we are."