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cryonics

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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A number of experts are hopeful that medical nanotechnology will be used to revive those who are preserved in cryonic stasis.
Helton on Williams: Colorado first baseman Todd Helton is one of the best pure hitters in baseball and he is also following the sad saga involving former Boston slugger Ted Williams, whose body is apparently lying in a cryonic state while the family bickers about his final resting place.
And then, members of ALCOR, a cryonic preservation company, were going to chop off his head and preserve it.
 
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