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In his first suspended animation stages, his body was stored at Edward Hope's Cryo-Care facility in Phoenix, Arizona, for two years, then in 1969 moved to the Galiso facility in California. Bedford's body was moved from Galiso in 1973 to Trans Time near Berkeley, California , until 1977, before being stored by his son for many years.
Technicians preparing a body for cryopreservation in 1985. 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.
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It was not until 25 years later in 2018 that the first person, Norman Hardy, was successfully cryopreserved after being allowed a medically aided death. [ 70 ] [ 71 ] In 2016, a fourteen-year-old girl won the legal right to have her corpse cryogenically frozen, becoming a landmark case in the United Kingdom. [ 72 ]
[citation needed] While Ettinger was the first, most articulate, and most scientifically credible person to argue the idea of cryonics, [citation needed] he was not the only one. In 1962, Evan Cooper had authored a manuscript entitled "Immortality: Physically, Scientifically, Now" [13] under the pseudonym Nathan Duhring. [14]
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Leaf was involved in the first experiments done by a cryonics organization. [5] He is most famous for developing with Mike Darwin a blood substitute shown capable of sustaining life in dogs for four hours at near-freezing temperatures. [8] Leaf was the head of Alcor's suspension team and participated in many suspensions of Alcor patients. [4]
Dora Kent (May 1, 1904 – December 11, 1987) [1] was the subject of a 1988 legal controversy about whether she had been murdered to facilitate her cryonic suspension.She was Alcor's eighth patient and the oldest at that time to ever be cryopreserved. [2]