Queensland couple hope to be among those cryogenically frozen at Australia-first facility

Barbara and Allan Pease have spent most of their lives together.

So when the Queensland couple is cryogenically frozen, it might come as no surprise they’re doing it “side by side”.

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“We think it’s quite exciting we’re going to be frozen in time together,” Allan Pease told 7NEWS.

“We’ve spent most of our lives together, climbing mountains and doing exciting things. The ups and downs that happen with an exciting life, we’re going to get more of it.

“We’re going to go in together, side by side.”

The couple, who live on the Sunshine Coast, even have an agreement that if one of them “doesn’t unfreeze properly”, the cryogenicists will “pull the plug on the other”, Pease said.

The Peases want to become among the first people frozen at a newly-built facility in the NSW town of Holbrook — the first such facility in the Southern Hemisphere — operated by Southern Cryonics.

They first became interested in cryogenics while having their youngest children.

With Barbara in her 40s and Allan undergoing radiation treatment to his prostate, they were unable to conceive naturally.

So, using DNA as opposed to sperm, they were able to produce two embryos.