In every country and everyone in the world, there are countless myths and legends about "immortality", which reflects people's universal desire for life, and with the progress of science and technology since the 19th century, although people still can not let life continue forever, but medicine has made long-term progress, a large number of incurable diseases in the past are now regarded as incurable diseases, now have effective solutions, the average life expectancy of human beings, is extended several times, and a new technology, as usual, has been mentioned, That's freezing technology.
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Up to now, people have learned from the hibernation of animals, as well as the freezing of food, under low temperature conditions, the metabolism of organisms can be slowed down, and microorganisms can slow down or even stop reproduction, a piece of fresh meat can be preserved for a longer time, but can humans also get hibernation technology through technology, like animals?
There are really people who dare to eat crabs, and his name is James Bedford.
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James is a retired psychology professor in the United States, is already an old man over 70 years old, Professor James loves to try all kinds of new things in his life, and after retirement, he also travels to the South African steppes, but in the 60s, the old man was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, with chemotherapy surgery, he began to become withered, lying in bed dying, but with a phone call, James's life changed.
The caller was Robert Ettinger, a professor at the University of Michigan, who was an authoritative expert in freezing technology at the time and the author of the best-selling novel "The Prospect of Immortality", in which Robert predicted that technology would change people's lives and that freezing technology would become very common.
For those patients with incurable diseases, they will be able to come to the future world through freezing, thus curing various physical difficulties, and now Robert is planning to make freezing technology a reality, after hearing James's story, the professor got in touch with him, Robert asked James if he would like to volunteer for himself.
James replied in the affirmative, in his opinion, it is not a bad thing to try, and in 1966, James made a suicide note, leaving a huge amount of $100,000 for the cost of freezing the body and daily care for the next few decades, in addition to the $4200 in advance for liquid nitrogen and freezer.
In several people's plans, they plan to freeze for 50 years, and by 2017, there will be enough medical conditions and technology to revive James and cure his physical illness.
On January 12, 1967, James finally died in the hospital, Robert's freezing team immediately arrived at the hospital, they took the lead in giving James a cold bath, injected heparin to prevent blood from clotting, and drained the blood, replaced with cryoprotectant, to ensure that his body cells would not be damaged by crystals, and after three days, as James's body was processed, he was transferred to the Frozen Care Center in Arizona, stored in liquid nitrogen at minus 196 degrees Celsius.
Now that 50 years have passed, what is the current situation of James? Unfortunately, James and Robert's predictions are obviously wrong, technology is not developed enough to revive it, 2017 has passed, James still has not woken up, whether it is still preserved or not, which means that this experiment failed, and hope that in the future, technology can bring more hope to people.