M.Meiser was convinced that it is practicable; he wrote to that effect in all his books, although he did not demonstrate it by experiment.
"Now where would be the harm in it, ladies?
All men curious in regard to the future, or dissatisfied with life, or out of sorts with their contemporaries, could hold themselves in reserve for a better age, and we should have no more suicides on account of misanthropy.
Valetudinarians, whom the ignorant science of the nineteenth century declares incurable, needn't blow their brains out any more; they can have themselves dried up and wait peaceably in a box until Medicine shall have found a remedy for their disorders.

Rejected lovers need no longer throw themselves into the river; they can put themselves under the receiver of an air pump, and make their appearance thirty years later, young, handsome and triumphant, satirizing the age of their cruel charmers, and paying them back scorn for scorn.

Governments will give up the unnatural and barbarous custom of guillotining dangerous people.
They will no longer shut them up in cramped cells at Mazas to complete their brutishness; they will not send them to the Toulon school to finish their criminal education; they will merely dry them up in batches--one for ten years, another for forty, according to the gravity of their deserts.

A simple store-house will replace the prisons, police lock-ups and jails.

There will be no more escapes to fear, no more prisoners to feed.