Cryonics in Finland

Finland is a country in Northern Europe. The Finnish Cryonics Society (Suomen Kryoniikkaseura ry), internationally also known as KRYOFIN, was founded in 2008. The goal of the society is to advocate knowledge about cryonics and the availability of practical cryonics services in Finland. So far, the society does not have its own storage facility. The closest storage facilities are those of KrioRus in Russia, the neighboring country of Finland.

Legislation
According to KRYOFIN, cryopreservation is compared to burial. Agreements must be made carefully in advance with a private hospital and a funeral director.

In Finland, the legislation of assisted suicide is unclear. Active euthanasia, even voluntary, is illegal, but passive, voluntary euthanasia is not.

Members and patients
As of September 2020, the Alcor Life Extension Foundation has one Finnish member who has made cryopreservation arrangements. Alcor does not have any Finnish patients. As of October 2020, the Cryonics Institute also has one Finnish member. Also KrioRus has Finnish members.

As of May 2021, there are no Finnish patients in the list of KrioRus patients. But, according to a June 2017 article by the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, KrioRus has two Finnish cryopatients in their facility in Sergiyev Posad, Moscow Oblast. In the article, there is a photo of a Finnish flag hanging from the ceiling of the storage, which, according to the article, means the storage has Finnish patients. However, according to KrioRus, the flag is there, because KrioRus has Finnish members. According to KrioRus, they do not have any Finnish patients yet.

Cryonics in Finnish fiction
The 1969 film Ruusujen aika (A Time of Roses) takes place in 2012. In it, there is a short scene in which cryonics can be seen discussed on television. It is told on television that over 27,000 rich people have been preserved, waiting to be revived possibly in 100 years.

The main character of the 1971 short film Syväjäädytetty opettaja is teacher Mikael Otsola who gets revived from cryopreservation in 2034.

Aurinkotuuli (The Solar Wind) is a 1975 novel by Kullervo Kukkasjärvi. It was made into a film of the same name in 1980. In the film, the main character gets revived from cryopreservation in 1999.