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Cryonics (from Greek: κρύος kryos, meaning "cold") is the low-temperature freezing (usually at −196 °C or −320.8 °F or 77.1 K) and storage of human remains in the hope that resurrection may be possible in the future. [1] [2] Cryonics is regarded with skepticism by the mainstream scientific community.
Deceased people who have been cryopreserved. James Bedford, 1967 [16] Dora Kent, 1987 [17] Dick Clair, 1988 [18] [19] Bredo Morstøl, 1989; FM-2030, 2000 [2]
The first of these seminars attracted 30 people. On July 16, 1976, Alcor performed its first human cryopreservation on Fred Chamberlain's father. [11] That same year, research in cryonics began with initial funding provided by the Manrise Corporation. At that time, Alcor's office consisted of a mobile surgical unit in a large van.
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In June 1965, Ev Cooper's Life Extension Society (LES) offered the opportunity to preserve one person free of charge, stating that "the Life Extension Society now has primitive facilities for emergency short term freezing and storing our friend the large homeotherm (man). LES offers to freeze free of charge the first person desirous and in need ...
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A 20-year-old hiker has been found alive after being reported missing in October. On Tuesday, Nov. 26, Sam Benastick was located near the Redfern Lake trail in British Columbia, Canada after being ...
Cryonics is the low-temperature freezing (usually at −196 °C or −320.8 °F or 77.1 K) of a human corpse, with the hope that resuscitation may be possible in the future. [57] [58] It is regarded with skepticism within the mainstream scientific community and has been characterized as quackery. [59]