Posted on 01/31/2017 3:24:16 AM PST by beaversmom
It was late evening on January 12, 1967 and three men were laboring over the body of psychology professor James Bedford, who had just died from kidney cancer at the age of 72.
But while the manner of Bedford's death - in bed at a hospital in Glendale, California, was not unusual - what happened next certainly was.
Bedford was about to become the world's first cryopreserved human being – and now lies suspended in liquid nitrogen in a vault in Scottsdale, Arizona. Although the 72-year-old said before his death that he didn't expect ever to be revived, scientist Robert Nelson, one of the trio who carried out the preservation process, says he is confident that Bedford will one day live again.
'When we froze Bedford, man had never been on the moon, there had never been a heart transplant, there was no GPS, no cellphones,' said Nelson, now 80, in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I would imagine he has freezer burn by now.
One has to wonder if Nelson’s so confident in his procedure, why didn’t he freeze himself 20-30 years ago when he would have been a lot younger?
Anthropologist Stanley Shephard (Timothy Hutton) is brought to an arctic base when explorers discover the body of a prehistoric man (John Lone) who has been frozen in a block of ice for 40,000 years. After thawing the body to perform an autopsy, scientists discover to their amazement a real possibility to revive him and their attempt to resuscitate the "iceman" proves successful.--Wikipedia
IMO, there is something creepy about this and un-godly. I get the same creepy feeling about cloning humans and animals.
Now that Trump’s in office, it would be a great time to wake him up. We just won’t tell him what happened during the past 50 years (too embarrassing), except for Reagan winning the Cold War.
I don’t suppose either of you geniuses has ever seen a frozen beefsteak ...
I have similar thoughts, as my understanding there is significant cell damage when frozen.
Some critters survive freezing, such as house flies, but they have certain characteristics within their cells that prevents damage. We don’t.
This story makes me think of this:
From Revelations 9:6
During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
> IMO, there is something creepy about this and un-godly. I get the same creepy feeling about cloning humans and animals.
Or experimenting and creating hybrids (chimeras). I read somewhere that they had created a human / pig hybrid for the purpose of harvesting organs to use in the medical field but I think Hillary already proved that could be done...: )
Assuming one could freeze and thaw cells successfully, what about chemicals like neurotransmitters and hormones? Would those outlast being frozen? If not, then even if the brain and body could be thawed out, would a person’s memory be gone?
. . . and if you did revive him, every last person in the world that he ever cared about would be gone, anyway - and the culture would, I fear, be almost alien to him.Which puts me in mind of the C-Span presentation John McWhorter did on his recent book.
- Words on the Move:
- Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)
He explains why English started out from Beowolf and changed to Chaucer and then to Shakespeare and on to the present day - and the future. Very interesting discussion. As the addendum to the subtitle suggests, he discusses (for example) the “Valley Girl” use of “like” and the inverted meaning of “literally.”
“John McWhorter’s Words on the Move has a deeper point than most language books: it’s focused on the ordinary words which do most of the grunt work of communicating, but which we rarely give much thought to. It’s full of little puzzles and surprises that stop us in our tracks and make us aware of the gentle breezes that are always blowing our words hither and yon. McWhorter is awfully good at listening to words and at explaining what he hears there, and his book is so brimming with insights that even as a linguist, I found myself stopping every couple of pages to say to myself, ‘Huh―I never thought of that.’ So will you.”--Geoffrey Nunberg, linguist on NPR’s “Fresh Air” and author of Going Nucular and Ascent of the A-Word
I have wondered about memory, too. And, along the same vein, I have thought about the soul...if one believes in a soul that inhabits us, and leaves upon death, how would it come back into the person?
On the soul question, humanity will probably find out the hard way.
And we've already seen what happened to Jeff Goldblum when he got crossed with some fly DNA...it wasn't pretty.
Not only seen one, but actually eaten one as well. Not bad, but I prefer a fresh one.
Disney was not frozen.
We still don’t have an absolute cure for kidney cancer.
I’ve toured Alcor and have seen his chamber. Great way to kill an afternoon in Scottsdale.
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