Life and death are natural laws that everything in the world cannot escape, and all of us will eventually go to death, but throughout history, countless people have wanted to fight against the laws; from King Mu of Zhou to Qin Shi Huang, from Emperor Wu of Han to Emperor Jiajing, from folk warlocks to princes and generals, although they have made a lot of efforts, there is no exception, and no one can break free from the shackles of fate.
However, in modern times, scientists have found that "immortality" or "resurrection" is not impossible, thanks to "cryonics technology". This is a technology that surpasses modern human science, preserving human or animals in liquid nitrogen at minus 196 degrees Celsius, and reviving frozen bodies when future science and technology are mature. The first person in human history to be frozen is named James Bedford, started freezing in 1967, and planned to "resurrect" 50 years later, that is, in 2017, now that it is 2021, 4 years have passed, what happened to James Bedford, who should have been "resurrected"?
Frozen people
When it comes to freezing technology, most people think of probably American science fiction blockbusters, and in these science fiction works, we have seen the bridge section of freezing the human body in a liquid of absolute zero degrees and then waking it up in the future. However, can creatures really be revived after freezing in reality?
There is no doubt about this answer at present. In junior high school, chemistry teachers will do such an experiment: put a small fish in -196 ° liquid nitrogen, and then the small fish stops any activity, it seems to have frozen to death, however, when the fish is put into warm water to thaw, it can recover and seem to have gained a new life.
Liquid nitrogen fish experiment
In addition, freezing technology also plays an important protective role for some organs or tissues of the human body. For example, the transportation of human organ transplantation requires freezing technology; in addition, embryo freezing, egg freezing and other technologies have also been very mature. For example, in early December 2020, in the US state of Tennessee, an embryo frozen in a liquid nitrogen tank 27 years ago was "awakened" and transferred to the womb of a mother, successfully giving birth to a healthy baby girl. This makes the families involved in cryonics once again hope. For the scientific community, this seems to have proven that "freezing technology is feasible".
Seeing the vigorous development of freezing technology, some people have not asked: if you are terminally ill, can you save the human body cryopreservation, wait for the future science to overcome this terminal illness, and then thaw treatment, is it possible to greatly improve life expectancy?
Frozen embryos
American physicist James Bedford devoted his life to scientific research, but what he did not expect was that he had lung cancer, which was accompanied by heart failure. For more than fifty years ago, in 1967, cancer was a terminal illness, and he knew that his time was running out, but there was no way to do it, and he was tormented by cancer alive. At this time, Dr. Robert was studying cryonics technology, and at his invitation, James accepted the invitation to "cryonic surgery". Subsequently, he made a will, leaving $100,000 for cryonics, and firmly believed that in 50 years, human beings will be able to conquer cancer, and then choose the opportunity to thaw, or even "resurrect". After leaving the sentence "I know in my heart that I don't think I have any hope of resurrection, but I did this to support the experimental research, and one day, cryonics technology can benefit the descendants of mankind", I was pushed into liquid nitrogen and stopped breathing.
50 years later, in 2017, the human body did not conquer cancer, and even more and more patients with cancer; and cryonics technology did not develop as scheduled, and 4 years later, the world's first frozen James Bedford did not choose to "resurrect", perhaps he will never wake up, but became the first person in human history to contribute to the experiment.
After decades of development, there are 4 institutions in the world that can independently complete cryonics, and Shandong's Life Science Research Institute is one of them. Since 2017, there have been 10 "frozen people" in China, the most famous of which is Du Hong. This name may be unfamiliar to everyone, but when it comes to "Three-Body Problem", many people are excited, after all, this is a masterpiece in the history of Chinese science fiction, with a novel, it has raised the Chinese science fiction theme to the world level, and Du Hong is the reviewer of "Three-Body".
Du Hong
On May 30, 2015, Du Hong, who was suffering from pancreatic cancer, passed away, and then was injected with anticoagulants, antibacterial drugs, antithrombotic drugs by two American doctors, and put into liquid nitrogen to freeze, she believes that future humans will be able to overcome various problems, and hope that they can be "resurrected" when the time comes.
If human beings one day realize the "resurrection" technology of cryonics, will it be good or bad for the world? What do you think about this, welcome to leave a message to discuss.