The first person to be cryogenically frozen was a 73-year-old man, Dr. James Bedford, who was suspended in 1967. He was a retired psychology professor who died due to cancer. His body is reportedly still in good condition at Alcor Life Extension Foundation.
The idea that a person could be frozen and then brought back to life when the technology had evolved far enough originated with the book "The Prospect of Immortality," written by physics teacher Robert Ettinger in 1964. The thesis of Ettinger's book was that any individual cooled to such temperatures could be maintained in that state until such as the meat or vegetables on the refrigerator, as well as any freezing damage itself, could be repaired and the person cured and restored to life.In short: if a person dying today were cooled quickly enough, he or she could reasonably expect to be restored to life at some point in the future.
He was a futurist who changed his given name to FM-2030. He would have turned 100 in 2030. And, if his plans are realized, he might still.FM-2030, who was known for his sunny optimism, had directed that his body be frozen by an Arizona foundation specializing in such things in the hope that doctors in the future will find a cure for pancreatic cancer, which his longtime friend Flora Schnall said was the cause of death.
Ted Williams
Ted Williams was a baseball player.He died on July 5th,2002 due to an heart attack. After Williams, his body was taken by private jet to the company in Scottsdale, Ariz. There, Williams' body was separated from his head in a procedure called neuroseparation. Ted Williams was decapitated by surgeons at the cryonics company where his body is suspended in liquid nitrogen.
Justin Smith
Justin Smith was a 25-year-old man that had been lying in the cold for nearly 12 hours. It was 5 degrees below zero and snowing.When emergency personnel arrived, they couldn’t find signs of life either. Meanwhile, his father Don phoned Justin’s mother to give her the unimaginable news. Their son was gone.
Except, he wasn’t. Not according to Gerald Coleman, the emergency department physician on duty at the Lehigh Valley Hospital early on the morning of Feb. 21. “My clinical thought is very simple: You have to be warm to be dead,” said Coleman.The secret that saved Smith — and countless others — lies in the way the body slows down as it gets colder.By the time their temperature plunges into the 60s, their heart will stop beating altogether. Even though Justin seemed to be dead, the doctors started doing CPR due to the ideas of the Dr. Coleman. At the end, the doctors brought again Justin alive.
The best to explain how cryonics works is with the story of a 14 years old-girl that died due to cancer. When a person has been declared legally dead, the cryonic preservation company is informed and it dispatches a response team to attempt to keep the person's blood pumping around their body. The body is packed in ice and injected with various chemicals in an attempt to reduce blood clotting and damage to the brain.
Once the body reaches the cryonics facility it is cooled to just above water's freezing point and the blood is removed and replaced with organ preservation solution. The body's blood vessels are injected with a cryoprotectant solution to try to stop ice crystal formation in the organs and tissues and the corpse is cooled to -130C. The final step is to place the body into a container which is lowered into a tank of liquid nitrogen, kept at -196C. The schoolgirl died on October 17. She arrived at the Cryonics Institute near Detroit, Michigan, eight days later, becoming the 143rd patient .
Cryonics is a technique intended to hopefully save lives and greatly extend lifespan. It involves cooling legally-dead people to liquid nitrogen temperature where physical decay essentially stops, in the hope that future scientific procedures will someday revive them and restore them to youth and good health. A person held in such a state is said to be a "cryopreserved patient", because we do not regard the cryopreserved person as being inevitably "dead".
However, this very simple idea is also very simple to misunderstand, because it involves several related but different scientific disciplines. For example, cryonics must be distinguished from cryogenics (the study of extreme low temperature on physical materials whether animate or inanimate). It must also be distinguished from cryobiology (the study of the effects of low temperature on biological material) because the study of low temperature effects on such material does not necessarily mean extreme low temperatures.
It could help for the survival of the Human Race: nowadays the risk of a nuclear war has been increasing. Using the foundations of cryonics, it would be possible to maintain the survival of the human race, along with the plants and animals that we currently have, should a nuclear holocaust occur.
The Organ Transplantation System can be improved: If organs could be cryonically preserved, then all of the regional organ donation lists could go way. Everyone would have the same access to the available organs for transplantation.
History and Experience: Since 1976, cryonics have successfully cryopreserved over 100 patients, all of them are still in perfect cryostasis today.
Disadvantages of Cryonics
It's very expensive: the price to use this technology is around $28,000 for an all-life service
It Could Prevent Death: the death is part of the life, and if cryonics is applied, this moment of the life won't come and the life-experience is affected.
It Could Change The Ethics Of Humanity: How would people treat each other if death is not an option? this can change all the meaning of the life
