Hundreds Of Frozen Human Bodies Are Waiting For Science To Advance And Wake Them Up
In the suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, on the edge of the Sonoran desert there lies a frozen man immersed in liquid nitrogen inside an aluminum pod.
Outside of the building, temperatures can reach more than 40 degrees for 8 months of the year.
However, on the inside, Bedford and the other frozen people, with enough money to support to remain frozen, are being kept at -200 degrees.
Bedford was a World War 1 veteran and psychology professor who explored the Amazon and Africa in the mid-20th century.
He died of kidney cancer at 73 years of age in 1967 and is the oldest cryogenically frozen human being in history.
Had science been advanced enough to reanimate him, he would now be celebrating 54 years in a deep freeze.
Since his original freezing, many have signed up to join him in hopes of a new life at some point in the future.
Some, like Bedford, are full bodies, while others are just heads or brains.
In the last 50 years, the science of cryogenics has had some fatal failures as some wrongly frozen bodies started to decompose.
There are also bodies that have been thrown around in trucks packed in dry ice as their families argue over whether to keep them frozen for the future or give them a proper funeral now.
But, as science is making steps towards progress each year, in the three cryogenic facilities of the world – Alcor, the Cryonics Institute in Michigan, and KrioRus in Russia – new bodies are being added to the stack.
Other famous people who have been frozen by cryogenics include:
Dick Clair Jones – actor, writer, and producer.
Thomas K. Donaldson – mathematician.
Fereidoun M. Esfandiary, also known as FM-2030 – transhumanist philosopher.
Jerry Leaf – Alcor’s vice president before he died of a heart attack in 1991.
Ted Williams – professional baseball player.
John-Henry Williams – professional baseball player and son of Ted Williams.
And there surely are signs of hope as back in 2016 a young graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology named Robert McIntyre was able to successfully freeze and then revive a mammalian brain, that of a rabbit.
After it was unfrozen, the brain was found to have all of its synapses, cell membranes, and intracellular structures intact.
And now, Alcor’s cryogenics base in the Sonoran desert hosts the bodies of 181 humans frozen in liquid nitrogen.
The day when a frozen human from one of the three cryogenic facilities would be revived may not come any time soon but scientists are hopeful that at some point in time we could be witnessing the re-births of people long forgotten.
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Mamia ya miili ya watu waliohifadhiwa katika barafu ya Arizona, Marekani, wamewekwa ndani ya chombo cha alumini. Jengo hilo lina joto la juu zaidi ya digrii 40 kwa miezi minane ya mwaka. Hata hivyo, ndani ya nyumba, Bedford na watu wengine waliohifadhiwa, wakiwa na pesa za kutosha ili kuhifadhiwa, wanahifadhiwa kwenye joto la -200 digrii. Bedford alikuwa mwanajeshi wa Vita vya Kwanza vya Dunia na profesa wa saikolojia ambaye alichunguza Amazon na Afrika katikati ya karne ya 20. Alikufa kutokana na kansa ya figo akiwa na umri wa miaka 73 mwaka 1967 na ni mtu mwenye umri mkubwa zaidi aliyewahi kufungia kwa njia ya cryogenic katika historia. Kama sayansi ingekuwa imeendelea sana kumfufua, sasa angekuwa akisherehekea miaka 54 katika hali ya baridi kali. Tangu kufungwa kwake, wengi wamejiunga naye kwa matumaini ya maisha mapya wakati fulani katika siku zijazo. Baadhi yao, kama vile Bedford, wana mwili mzima, huku wengine wakiwa na vichwa au akili tu. Katika miaka 50 iliyopita, sayansi ya cryogenics imekuwa na baadhi ya kushindwa mbaya kama baadhi ya miili makosa kufungia kuanza kuoza. Miili ya watu imepelekwa kwenye magari ya kubebea mizigo ya barafu kavu huku familia zao zikibishana ikiwa itaiweka kwenye barafu au kuifanyia mazishi ya haki. Lakini, kwa kuwa sayansi inafanya hatua kuelekea maendeleo kila mwaka, katika vituo vitatu vya cryogenic vya ulimwengu - Alcor, Taasisi ya Cryonics huko Michigan, na KrioRus nchini Urusi - miili mipya inaongezwa kwenye rundo. Watu wengine mashuhuri ambao wamekuwa waliohifadhiwa na cryogenics ni pamoja na: Dick Clair Jones <unk> mwigizaji, mwandishi, na mtayarishaji. Thomas K. Donaldson <unk> mwanahisabati. Fareedun M. Esfandiari, pia anajulikana kama FM-2030 <unk> mwanafalsafa wa transhumanist. Jerry Leaf, makamu wa rais wa Alcor, aliuawa mwaka 1991 kwa mshtuko wa moyo. Ted Williams <unk> mchezaji wa besiboli wa kitaalamu. John-Henry Williams <unk> mchezaji wa besiboli wa kitaalamu na mwana wa Ted Williams. Mwaka 2016 mwanafunzi wa chuo kikuu cha Massachusetts Institute of Technology Robert McIntyre alifanikiwa kuhifadhi ubongo wa sungura. Baada ya kufunguliwa, ubongo uligunduliwa kuwa na synapses zake zote, utando wa chembe, na miundo ya ndani ya chembe haikuharibiwa. Kituo cha Alcor katika jangwa la Sonoran, Marekani, kinawahifadhi maiti 181 za watu waliofungwa katika maji ya nitrojeni. Siku ambayo binadamu aliyezama kutoka kwenye moja ya vituo vitatu vya cryogenic atafufuliwa huenda isifikie hivi karibuni lakini wanasayansi wana matumaini kwamba wakati fulani tunaweza kushuhudia kuzaliwa upya kwa watu waliosahaulika kwa muda mrefu. Ni nini maoni yako juu ya siku zijazo za cryogenics? Tuambie kwa kujiunga na mazungumzo katika maoni na tafadhali kushiriki kama umependa kusoma.