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James Hiram Bedford (April 20, 1893 – January 12, 1967) was an American psychology professor at the University of California who wrote several books on occupational counseling. [1] He is the first person whose body was cryopreserved after legal death, and remains preserved at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. [2] [3] [4]
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Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger (December 4, 1918 [1] – July 23, 2011 [2]) was an American academic, known as "the father of cryonics" because of the impact of his 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality. [3] [4] Ettinger founded the Cryonics Institute [5] and the related Immortalist Society and until 2003
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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]
Jerry Donnell Leaf (April 4, 1941 – July 10, 1991) was Vice President and Director of the cryonics organization Alcor Life Extension Foundation, and President of the cryonics service firm Cryovita, Inc. [1] [2] until his death in 1991. Leaf joined the United States Army and fought in special operations during the Vietnam War.
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.
In a whimsical Instagram video, Carey, 54, was locked in a time vault, which opened at the stroke of midnight on Wednesday, November 1, to reveal she was frozen in a block of ice.