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Practice of freezing a body at the moment of clinical death with the aim of enabling eventual resuscitation. The body, drained of blood, is indefinitely preserved in a thermos-type container filled with liquid nitrogen at −196°C/−321°F.

The first human treated was James H Bedford, a lung-cancer patient of 74, in the USA in 1967.



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