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His body was preserved by Robert Prehoda (author of the 1969 book Suspended Animation), Dante Brunol (physician and biophysicist) and Robert Nelson (President of the Cryonics Society of California). Nelson then wrote a book about the subject titled We Froze the First Man. Compared to the modern use of cryoprotectants, the methods employed in ...
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]
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.
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Almost all of the early cryogenically preserved bodies were thawed and disposed of after the cryonic facilities went out of business. Image credits: pandaKrusher #8
This is a list of people who have been cryonically preserved. It is generally difficult to ascertain who is in this state due to medical privacy concerns; however, some cases have been publicized. Subcategories
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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyIt was a warm day for a heist, at least by Moscow standards, which matters if you’re allegedly stealing frozen human bodies.On Sept. 7 ...