On May 8, 2017, a special operation was underway in qilu hospital of Shandong University.
After the patient's heart stopped beating and was confirmed by the doctor to be clinically dead, another group of medical personnel immediately stepped forward and used the cardiac support system to make the patient's heart beat again.
The patient was then immediately sent to a special institution, where, after 55 hours of freezing, he was placed in a liquid nitrogen tank and fell asleep, waiting for the day to wake up again.
This patient is the first case of Zhan Wenlian in China to undergo freezing technology.
Because of the incurable lung cancer, her husband Gui Junmin chose to freeze her first, hoping that when she was awakened in a few decades, cancer would no longer be an incurable disease.
When Zhan Wenlian was just frozen, Gui Junmin still went to visit from time to time and poured out his thoughts on Zhan Wenlian's liquid nitrogen tank, but four years later, Gui Junmin suddenly announced that he was going to remarry!
Together, we'll be a good couple
The reason why Gui Junmin chose to let his wife become The first case of frozen people in China is because they have a deep emotional foundation.
Both were born in 1968 and attended the same junior high school, and their parents were cadres aiding Xinjiang, one from Shandong and the other in Henan.
Zhan Wenlian's family situation is slightly better than Gui Junmin's, so she will often send things to Gui Junmin, and the two were simple friendships between classmates at that time, and no one thought much about it.
After graduating from junior high school, Zhan Wenlian was not admitted to high school, and it was not long before she followed her parents back to her hometown, while Gui Junmin was admitted to the university in Shanghai because of her excellent grades.
After returning to Shandong to complete her studies, Zhan Wenlian worked at a bank in Shanghe County, Jinan City, where she also exchanged letters with Gui Junmin.
The change occurred when Gui Junmin was in his sophomore year.
That day, he suddenly received a letter from Zhan Wenlian, saying that his parents died in a car accident, Gui Junmin was nervous, a little relieved, immediately bought a ticket, took a 17-hour train to Jinan, got off the train and then transferred to the county where Zhan Wenlian was located.
At that time, Zhan Wenlian was only in her early twenties, and she could not completely separate herself from her parents, but she was facing the burden of raising two younger sisters and a younger brother, and the pressure could be imagined, and the arrival of Gui Junmin quietly opened the softest place in her heart.
Since then, Zhan Wenlian has regarded Gui Junmin as the reliance of the next life, she left the past reserved, took the initiative to go to Shanghai to visit Gui Junmin in the university, and gradually, Gui Junmin's teachers and classmates became familiar with this Shandong girl.
College students who graduated in the 1990s were all assigned by packages after graduation, and they were all formal jobs within the system.
However, in order to show Wenlian, after Graduating, Gui Junmin, after graduating, carried his own files, resolutely gave up the assignment work in Shanghai, and followed Zhan Wenlian back to the small county town in Shandong to settle down.
After coming to Shanghe County, Gui Junmin worked as a physical education teacher in a local school, and Zhan Wenlian's younger siblings also established a family with the support and help of Gui Junmin.
Although such days are difficult, but with the support of two people, they will live a life that was once broken.
In 2000, Zhan Wenlian was transferred to the bank of Jinan City, Gui Junmin also went to jinan city sports school, and their family also moved from Shanghe County to the provincial capital Jinan.
Watching their sons succeed in their studies, the family is happy and harmonious, but life has made a joke with them.
In the spring of 2015, Zhan Wenlian accompanied her sister to the hospital for examination, and by the way, she also did a physical examination, and the physical examination results showed that her sister was in good health, but Zhan Wenlian was found to have lung cancer, and it has reached an advanced stage.
That year, Zhan Wenlian was 47 years old, and the couple could not have imagined that cancer would come to Zhan Wenlian.
Fight the disease with foam
After the physical examination of lung cancer, Zhan Wenlian and Gui Junmin still felt that it was impossible, thinking that the physical examination was wrong, so they ran to several hospitals for examination, and each time they came to the same conclusion.
Despite the incurable disease, Zhan Wenlian's mentality was still very optimistic, and even insisted on going to work, Gui Junmin advised her to resign, she did not listen, until the leaders of her unit let her rest assured of her illness, Zhan Wenlian took sick leave.
In order to treat the disease, Gui Junmin took Zhan Wenlian to many hospitals in Beijing and Tianjin, and then found foreign experts to see him, but the conclusions of these doctors were the same.
The doctor said that there was no better way for Zhan Wenlian's illness except chemotherapy, and all the doctors said after diagnosis that Zhan Wenlian's life was only half a year left.
In July 2015, Zhan Wenlian began to do chemotherapy, and she did not give in to the disease.
After doing chemotherapy, Zhan Wenlian also went to Luoyang with her in-laws to see peonies, went to Xi'an to climb Mount Hua, and played in Hangzhou for more than 20 days, outsiders could not see that this was a patient with advanced cancer.
Zhan Wenlian is also an idle person, during the period of recuperation, in addition to worrying about the big and small things at home, she also used her leisure time to embroider a lot of cross stitches.
After two months of chemotherapy, Zhan Wenlian's appearance and state recovered quite well, and Gui Junmin still thought that chemotherapy had played a role and had subdued the disease, who knew that after a few months, the nightmare would strike again.
One day in December 2016, Zhan Wenlian came home and said that she had a headache, and she thought it was a cold, so she took cold medicine and rested early.
Who knew that after a few days, the headache not only did not get better, but Zhan Wenlian became weak in her hands and feet, and she couldn't walk.
Gui Junmin, who realized that something was wrong, rushed to the hospital with his son, and after sitting in a wheelchair in the hospital and entering the outpatient hall, Zhan Wenlian also took a selfie with great interest.
Just after Zhan Wenlian put down her mobile phone, she suddenly began to vomit, and then she fainted as soon as her body was tilted.
This time, Zhan Wenlian never stood up again.
The cancer cells in Zhan Wenlian's body were not only not destroyed, but also transferred to the brain, causing intracranial hemorrhage, which is the reason why Zhan Wenlian had a headache and fainted.
The doctor told Gui Junmin that the significance of surgery for advanced cancer patients to remove brain tumors is not great, and the success rate is extremely low, 90% of patients can not get off the operating table, and the countdown to life has really begun.
In order to alleviate Zhan Wenlian's pain, Gui Junmin asked the doctor to do an intracranial decompression surgery for Zhan Wenlian, but what Gui Junmin did not expect was that this operation not only did not alleviate Zhan Wenlian's pain, but also caused her language expression ability and limb nerve damage, since then, Zhan Wenlian's condition has deteriorated sharply, and there is a large area of pain in her body.
Before entering the operating room, Zhan Wenlian specially painted a light makeup, and smiled and said to Gui Junmin, let him remember his most beautiful appearance, who knows this sentence, is the last complete sentence that Zhan Wenlian left for Gui Junmin.
In January 2017, after consulting with his son, Gui Junmin sent Zhan Wenlian to the hospice ward of Qilu Hospital to let his wife do comfortable treatment, and he wanted her to walk her life with dignity.
In the hospice ward, Gui Junmin took meticulous care of Zhan Wenlian, wiped her body several times a day, and in order to make his beautiful wife happy, he also changed her into beautiful clothes and took beautiful photos.
Although Zhan Wenlian's language function is impaired, Gui Junmin can still understand the meaning of his wife through a simple byte or a look in her eyes, and in the days of the ward, Zhan Wenlian is spoiled like a child by Gui Junmin every day.
Although he changed the law to make his wife happy every day, looking at Zhan Wenlian on the hospital bed, it was worse than a day, And Gui Junmin's heart ached like a hanging, and he had been foaming at each other for half a lifetime, and he was really reluctant to be his lover.
By chance, Gui Junmin came into contact with some information about the frozen human body, which made his heart slowly give birth to a glimmer of hope.
Treatment is hopeless to choose freezing technology
While accompanying his wife in the hospital, Gui Junmin accidentally learned a message from the mouth of the ward director, Class Weifu.
At present, a research institute in China is researching a "cryonics" technology, and it is currently recruiting volunteers for free.
Li Weifu said that this technology can quickly freeze patients who have just died, wait until decades later, and then wake up frozen patients for treatment, so that patients and their families can meet again in the future.
After listening to The Introduction of Class Weifu, Gui Junmin was moved, he took some information from Class Weifu to see, and also searched for news about "cryonics" on the computer.
Gui Junmin and civilians only learned that the technology of "cryonics" has been many cases abroad, and in 1967, the American James Bedford had tried this technology for the first time, and is still sleeping.
There are several companies around the world that can provide this service, and the Alco Life Extension Foundation alone has frozen 117 human bodies, and the company has also provided services for a female writer in China.
Ms. Du Hong, one of the editors and editors of the novel "The Three-Body Problem", chose Alco in the United States to freeze her brain after her death in 2015.
At that time, Du Hong's daughter still wrote in the circle of friends: Mom, we will see you in the future.
Due to Du Hong's popularity, this matter became a sensational news at that time, and also let many people understand the technology of "cryonics", and also made the Yinfeng Research Institute, which is engaged in this technology in China, surface.
Since 2016, more than a dozen patients' families across the country have come to the Yinfeng Research Institute, and some of them have been recommended by Alco in the United States.
Although so many people have come to them, at the final moment, these family members have invariably repented, so as of 2017, the Yinfeng Research Institute has not actually preserved a case of frozen human body.
Director Li Weifu himself was more interested in "human body freezing", and under his introduction, Yinfeng Research Institute took the initiative to meet with Gui Junmin and Jun.
After a detailed introduction by the research institute, Gui Junmin made up his mind and agreed to donate Zhan Wenlian's body to the Yinfeng Research Institute for life continuation research.
After convincing his son, Gui Junmin came to Zhan Wenlian's hospital bed again.
Holding Zhan Wenlian's hand, Gui Junmin carefully introduced the technology of "human body freezing" to Zhan Wenlian, and Zhan Wenlian pulled her husband's hand and agreed with Gui Junmin's idea.
In order to let Zhan Wenlian have a companion after waking up again, Gui Junmin signed the same donation agreement after signing Zhan Wenlian's donation agreement.
At 4:00 a.m. on May 8, 2017, Zhan Wenlian was declared clinically dead by doctors.
Subsequently, the doctors of the Yinfeng Research Institute entered the ward, and after six or seven minutes of busyness, Zhan Wenlian's heart was reactivated, and she was also brought into the Yinfeng Research Institute.
After 55 hours of surgery, the freezing was completed, and Gui Junmin took his son and his family to see his wife for the last time.
Lying on the cryogenic bed, Zhan Wenlian looked serene, except that her body shrank a little, and the whole person looked the same as when she was alive, even the skin was a normal color.
After a short period of more than ten seconds, Zhan Wenlian was carefully placed in a liquid nitrogen tank for preservation, waiting for the time to wake up.
Zhan Wenlian, a Yinfeng Research Institute, is also the first patient in China to receive the "human body freezing" technology.
Old people can't accept a new partner
On the informed consent signed by Gui Junmin, yinfeng research institute clearly wrote that they cannot guarantee that the continuation of life will be successful, but for Gui junmin, how to do it in the future is not something he can control, and he only wants to leave the last glimmer of reunion possibility for himself and Zhan Wenlian.
After Zhan Wenlian was frozen, Gui Junmin returned to Shandong and erected a crown tomb for Zhan Wenlian in the name of his son, and he also added his name to the tombstone.
When the name was engraved on the tombstone, Gui Junmin's mother was very concerned about this matter, but at the insistence of Gui Junmin, the name was still engraved, but in order to distinguish, his name was stained red.
After the incident passed, the son returned to work in the field, Gui Junmin stayed at home alone, the whole person's state was very bad, and the mobile phone was lost at every turn, scaring friends to come up and smash the door.
Once, Because of a gout attack, Gui Junmin was unable to move alone in bed, and after a few days of hunger, he had to crawl over and get his mobile phone to call his sister.
After his sister came, he cried with heartache, and in order to avoid Gui Junmin from starving again, his sister filled his bedside with food and drink.
After such a long time, Gui Junmin's body is not as good as before, and the physical education teacher who used to run, run and jump, now his limbs cannot be coordinated, and he can fall down after running a few steps.
After three years of such a day, Gui Junmin's students introduced him to a woman who was ten years younger than him, and his son did not object to this matter, and the family believed that Gui Junmin needed to be taken care of.
Gui Junmin, who was once determined, no longer objected this time, because he had no one to take care of his life, he was a mess, so he finally accepted the care of this woman.
The contract with Yinfeng Research Institute is 30 years, and Gui Junmin said that if the deadline is reached, the cancer can be cured, he will resurrect his wife, and if the technology is not up to standard, then continue to renew.
For the things that may be with Zhan Wenlian, Gui Junmin also hopes that the current female companion can understand, because in his heart, his wife is always only Zhan Wenlian, and his current female companion also needs to accept this matter.
Gui Junmin also took his female companion to visit Zhan Wenlian, and he also said that the female companion was very generous and did not mind his feelings for Zhan Wenlian, and he would re-enter the marriage in the future.
epilogue
After the first case of cryonics in 1967, as of now, there are still no successful cases of cryogenic freezing and resurrection in the world, so whether Zhan Wenlian can be successfully resurrected in the future is still unknown.
Judging from The performance before and after Zhan Wenlian's death, Gui Junmin's feelings for Zhan Wenlian are very sincere, and as for life, it is necessary for the parties to experience it themselves, so it is also understandable that he chooses to find another partner.
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