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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.
The first human corpse to be frozen with the hope of future resurrection was James Bedford's, a few hours after his cancer-caused death in 1967. [15] Bedford's is the only cryonics corpse frozen before 1974 still frozen today. [16]
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Cryonics is regarded with skepticism within the scientific community and has been characterized as quackery and pseudoscience. [3] [4] As of October 2023, Alcor had 1,927 members, including 222 who have died and whose corpses have been subject to cryonic processes; [5] [6] [7] 116 bodies had only their head preserved. [8]
KrioRus was founded in 2005 by a group of nine people who wanted to be cryogenically frozen along with their relatives to be revived in the future. [5] [6] Some of the company founders had past experience in the field of cryopreservation. For instance, in 2003, Igor ARyukhov was the chief advisor to the project that aimed to preserve the brain ...