Frozen: 8 amazing stories about cryopreservation Bashny.Net

Canning can not only rybuNekotorye people even on the verge of death, hope one day to come back to life. To nourish these hopes helps cryonics. On several occasions cryopreservation amazing people described below.

1. year-old girl who died of brain cancer, became the youngest person frozen in cryogenic chambers in 2015 was frozen year-old girl, who died from a brain tumor since her family hoped that someday she will come back to life thanks to scientific advances. Maturin Naovaratpong from Thailand is considered to be the youngest person of all who have ever been subjected to cryogenic freezing.



The girl discovered the tumor when she once could not wake up in the morning. Ependimoblastomu diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that occurs at a very young age. After many months of intensive treatment, after 12 operations on the brain, 20 sessions of chemotherapy and 20 radiation therapy sessions, it became clear that nothing more doctors can not do.

She died on January 8, 1915, after her parents turned off the life support system. By the time of his death, the girl has lost about 80% of the left hemisphere of the brain, leading to paralysis of the whole right side of the body.

Currently, her body was transferred to the cryogenic organization "Alcor", located in the state of Arizona. The brain and body were frozen separately at a temperature of minus 196 ° C.

The family hopes that one day science will move forward so that he could return the girl to life. In addition, parents want to keep her mind and body to a disease that caused the death of the girl, could be explored in the future.

If anyone is interested in the price of the enterprise, for "membership" in the "Alcor" family pays $ 700 annually. Also, the family pay the bill for 80 000 dollars for "neyroprotsedury" for Maturin, and the full body of the girl has managed to freeze the family still 200 000 dollars.

2. The creator of financial pyramid stole money to freeze its financial swindler zhenuPredpolagaemy used depositors' money for personal and, moreover, a very unusual order. Prosecutors allege that the stolen money he put his wife on the freeze.

Vileon Whose told investors that invested their money in commodities, in operations with foreign currencies and precious metals, but instead spent more than $ 150 000 in the cryogenic procedures for his wife, who died in 2009.

Prosecutors have not been able to find out all about his machinations, as 38-year-old Whose being under investigation in 2011, was able to escape from New York to Peru, and since it can not find.

Which they decompose managed to gather contributors from more than 5 million dollars, he promised them that will return about 24% per year of the invested amount, and insisted that "in this activity, there is no risk", according to prosecutors.

Nevertheless, more than 2 million dollars of depositors' money he spent on personal needs (one of the contributors said that Chey came a new car every time they met) and cryogenically frozen body of his wife.

3. terminally ill woman to raise funds for their kriokonservatsiyuKrionika - this is what we often see in their favorite science fiction movies, but now more and more people choose this way for their own salvation. Of course, if they can afford it.



So when 23-year-old student, who studied neuroscience, was diagnosed with brain cancer, she sought the help of the Internet, in order to raise the necessary funds, and then freeze himself - until the treatment is found. Her efforts were successful, and currently resides in Kim Suozzi cryogenically frozen.

Upon learning that she live only a few months, Kim went on Reddit, to ask users how to spend her remaining days. There also emerged theme of cryopreservation, after which Kim has updated his post and asked for financial assistance from the user.

Futurists, among which was the company Venturizm, do charity work and helped her to collect a huge amount of money that is required for cryopreservation.

Currently, cryopreservation is used only to patients who are considered clinically dead, and Kim has declared itself Suozzi January 17, 2013.

4. heartbroken widow wished to freeze, in order to be reunited with his frozen suprugomZhiteli Bridgetown, Martha and Helmer Sandberg enjoyed a happy life, but when Helmer in 1994, died of a brain tumor, he did not want his body to be cremated. He preferred something else.



Approximately $ 200 000 former US Marine was placed in a cryogenic chamber. Now he is in Detroit, at the Institute of cryonics, and waits, when the time comes to return to life.

Mrs. Sandberg also decided cryogenically frozen after his death. "I still miss Helmer, - she said. - I still love him. We have been together for more than 20 years, and these were the years of satisfaction and joy ».

Mrs. Sandberg expressed the hope that her and Helmer someday be alive together, but it is not stipulated as a prerequisite.

5. Three scientists from Oxford to pay for their kriokonservatsiyuVera in that death - the only thing you can be sure in this life, it is the concept that the senior teachers from Oxford hope to deny paying for the opportunity to be frozen and vibrant in the future. < br />


Nick Bostrom, a teacher of philosophy and his colleague Anders Sandberg decided to pay a US company for that that in the event of unexpected death separated their heads and put in a deep cryopreservation.



Stuart Armstrong, their colleague, also wants to be frozen, but he chose the whole body cryopreservation.

Bostrom, Sandberg and Armstrong - the leading researchers of the Institute of Human Future (FHI), which is part of the prestigious Oxford Martin School, where scientists are exploring global issues such as climate change on the planet.

Despite this, at the moment there are no academic studies devoted to cryopreservation. Therefore, scientists have insured their lives, and monthly pay of 45 euros for the insurance, which will be a source of funds in the event of sudden death.

If one of them would be terminally ill, cryopreservation team will wait for the arrival of the doctor, which should be pronounced dead. After that, the blood in the body of the deceased will be pumped by a special device, and the body itself will be cooled as the pumped blood is updated with special preservatives and antifreeze to protect the tissue.

If you plan to freeze only the head, it will be separated from the body, and then it will be placed in a nitrogen gas and cool down to minus 124 ° C. Gradually, the head cools down to minus 196 ° C, after which she was placed in a chamber with liquid nitrogen for long term storage in a cryogenic installation.

6. Legendary baseball player who was frozen after the court razbiratelstvaKogda baseball player Ted Williams died in July 2002 at age 83, his body was moved from Florida to the cryogenic facility in Arizona for cryopreservation.



Although he, being alive, asked to be cremated, John-Henry and Claudia, his children decided kriozamorozke.

The eldest daughter of Ted, Bobby-Jo Ferrell brought his brother and sister a lawsuit demanding to fulfill the last wish of his father, but the lawyer John Henry persuaded the parties to sign an informal "family pact", in which they nevertheless agreed to put his father in cryostasis after his death, and " revive in the future if the opportunity will be ».

However, the lawyer Bobby Joe Spike Fitzpatrick, soon began to argue that the "family pact", which was written on plain napkin - just a fake. However, examination has established that the signature on a napkin genuine.

John Henry, said his father always believed in science, and certainly tried to appeal to cryonics, if I had such an opportunity.

7. The first person to successfully zamorozhenNesmotrya the fact that there was one case of freezing, which was interrupted is now generally accepted that the first person frozen with intent to return to life in the future, was a 73-year-old psychology professor named James Bedford. His frozen adhering Cryonics Society of California (CSC) January 12, 1967.



In the scientific community of his day cryopreservation it celebrated as "Day of Bedford." At the time, even going to release a limited edition of Life magazine with a cover devoted to the event, but it did not happen, because at this time the magazine had reported the death of three astronauts in a fire at the "Apollo-1».

Until 1982, the Bedford's body was stored in liquid nitrogen. Storage engaged in his family, who lived in Southern California. Then he was transferred to the organization "Alcor", where it is and now.

8. Pioneer Bitcoin was frozen after the defeat in the battle with sklerozomV 2014 Pioneer Bitcoin Hal Finney, commonly known as the second after Satoshi Nakamoto developer cryptocurrency most popular in the world, has died after a five-year battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at the age of 58 years. In 2008, a year before he put this diagnosis, Finney held the first in the world trade system Bitcoin.



Before his death, he asked to be frozen and preserved in the fund "Alcor". So now his body from which had been removed the whole blood and other bodily fluids stored in the three-meter chamber filled with 450 liters of liquid nitrogen.

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