There is an old Chinese saying that "it is better to die than to live", which means that it is better to live than to die, because no matter how painful it is to die, it represents the end of everything and never returns. But as long as you live, no matter how painful it is to live, there is always hope. Whether this "hope" can be realized or not, once you die, there is nothing left.
Based on this mentality, many people hope that life expects to be extended before the big limit is approaching. From the elixirs and mummies of the ancients to today's over-treatment, it is all to achieve this goal. So how can you live a little longer? Cryonics technology, which began to emerge half a century ago, seems to give humanity hope for eternal life.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the world's first frozen person, agreed to thaw after 50 years</h1>
In 1962, the book "The Prospect of Immortality" was published in the United States, and the book laid out a bold idea: death can be reversed, and the way is cryonics technology. This idea aroused great interest to James Bedford, a psychology professor who was suffering from lung cancer at the time.
Professor Bedford has always been willing to try new things, so when he received an invitation from necrophilim expert Nelson to learn that the equipment and technology at that time had reached the conditions for emergency freezing and storing human bodies, he felt that he was going to die anyway, it was better to take a risk, so he gladly signed the volunteer letter of intent.
In 1966, Professor Bedford prepaid $4,200 for the freezer tank and liquid nitrogen, and made a will, leaving a $100,000 earmark to pay for the refrigeration company.
On January 12, 1967, Professor Bedford suffered a sudden heart failure, and Nelson's cryo team rushed to the hospital, but the professor had stopped beating and breathing. Despite this, the crowd began the freezing operation.
They first gave Professor Bedford a cold shower to cool his body down, then injected heparin to prevent blood clotting; then drained all the blood; and finally injected cryoprotectants from the carotid arteries.
The whole process lasted 3 days, and when everything was ready, Professor Bedford's flesh was put into a makeshift cryogenic tank and transferred to the Arizona Cryotherapy Facility Center. Professor Bedford became the world's first case of cryonics, and he was placed in liquid nitrogen at minus 196 degrees Celsius and began to sleep.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > easy to freeze and difficult to thaw, did Professor Bedford resurrect as scheduled</h1>?
According to the plan, Professor Bedford was supposed to thaw 50 years later, that is, in 2017, but it was a pity that the development of things was regrettable, and professor Bedford was still in a frozen state of eternal sleep.
In the 20th year of the implementation of the refrigeration technology, Professor Bedford's son and family terminated the contract they had signed and gave up paying fees to the freezing center. For many reasons, the freezing center has been funding the maintenance of the frozen professor's body to this day.
So why didn't the Freezer Center implement a recovery plan for Professor Bedford in 2017? There are two reasons: one is because the current medical technology can not cure lung cancer, even if the successful thaw professor is still difficult to escape death; second, with the current technology, it is not guaranteed that the thawed body is still intact. Therefore, in the absence of conditions, the choice of future thawing Professor Bedford is undoubtedly the best choice.
Back to necrosis expert Nelson. After the successful freezing of Professor Bedford, Nelson became famous, and many rich people came to him for consultation on cryonics, and he eventually performed the so-called "cryonics" for 9 people. The Nielsen team proved not to be perfect in this business, and the lack of technical and equipment support was his Achilles heel.
In Nielsen's cases, families could not afford the high cost of medical care, and frozen people died because of equipment problems. In 1979, Nielsen was sued for fraud, and Nielsen lost the case with $400,000 in damages, and no one has wanted to believe him since.
Now 80 years old, Nelson hopes to be revived with the help of cryonics, and in his opinion, it is only a matter of time. He said: "If one day I wake up, I must ask what era I am in, then for many years, I have been curious about the world, and I can't wait to know what the future holds.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > two frozen people in China who hope to be reunited with their loved ones in the future</h1>
In 2015, Du Hong, a female judge and children's literature writer who swept the major science fiction awards "Three-Body Problem", was unfortunately diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. At the end of her life, the 61-year-old Du Hong made an incredible decision, choosing to freeze her head as described in the "Three-Body Problem" novel, looking forward to "resurrection" in 50 years.
After Du Hong passed away peacefully, two American doctors immediately performed cryonics on her. After a series of complex procedures, the remaining blood in the head begins to be replaced. The replacement process is relatively long, the perfusion is more than 4 hours, and the whole process needs to be completed at a frozen low temperature close to 0 degrees Celsius, and Du Hong became the first case of frozen person in the country.
On the afternoon of May 30, 2015, Du Hong's daughter Zhang Siyao sent a circle of friends: "May 30, 2015, 17:40. Mom, we'll see you in the future. ”
The first "patient" frozen in China to await resurrection was Zhan Wenlian, who died of cancer at the age of 49. Before her death, Zhan Wenlian learned about freezing technology from the Internet, so after discussing with her husband, she decided to freeze her body and signed a plan to join the frozen people.
Zhan Wenlian's cryonics was jointly completed by clinical experts from Shandong Yinfeng Life Science Research Institute and Qilu Hospital of Shandong University. It is worth mentioning that Zhan Wenlian's husband Gui Junmin also signed a frozen person agreement, hoping to freeze with his lover after his death, and after the maturity of the future level of science and technology and medical level, he can one day renew the frontier with his wife.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks:</h1>
Now that cryonics technology is just getting started, as for resurrection, that's a distant topic. If you spend a lot of money on cryonics, no one can guarantee that one day you will definitely be awakened, but it is guaranteed that if you are cremated or buried, you will definitely disappear forever in this world.
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