one C of people have been cryonically rooted since the idea became workable in the 1960s . The most famous is baseball caption Ted Williams , but Larry King , Muhammad Ali , Simon Cowell and Gore Vidal have all aver they ’re concerned in giving cryonics a shot when they pass on .
The first man to go through the process , however , was n’t anyone of banker’s bill - until after his end , that is . James Bedford took the newly - formed Life Extension Society up on a public fling they made in 1965 . Having developed “ archaic facility for pinch shortsighted condition freeze , ” the companionship offered liberal preservation to the first person willing to test the new method .
The University of California psychological science prof was fascinated by the novel scientific discipline and left $ 100,000 to cryonics enquiry in his will . A few hr after his death from Crab in 1967 , Bedford ’s physical structure was organise for another lifetime - an existence in a tank of fluent nitrogen . His body was packed in ice until it was frosty ; his bloodline was debilitate and replace with an antifreeze solution . He was then stored carefully in a capsule and place in a liquid nitrogen bath . After that , nothing much exchange about Dr. Bedford ’s consideration until 1991 , when his care was moved from LES to a company called Alcor . While the crew was transferring their cryonics innovator to raw digs , they figure it would be an opportune meter to check in on his progress . The checkup revealed that Bedford was in comparatively good shape and had remain at subzero temp since 1967 . The masses at Alcor believe he ’s still a good candidate for revitalisation if science allows it someday .
Bedford ’s decisiveness is so well-thought-of within the cryonics residential area ( yep , there ’s a cryonics community ) that the doctor is celebrated on the anniversary of his death / freezing : January 12 , 1967 , is known as “ Bedford Day . ” Revelers presumably enjoy lollipop and alcohol on the rock .
… Too soon ?
Photo quotation : Alcor
