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freezing your way to a second chance the future may or may not honor.
means The branch of physics dealing with the production and effects of very low temperatures, and by extension the practice of freezing bodies or tissue in hopes of future revival.
from From Greek 'kryos' (icy cold, frost) plus '-genics,' from 'genes' (producing, born of) — literally 'cold-producing.' 'Kryos' is the same chilly root behind 'cryptic''s distant cousin 'crystal' (which the Greeks thought was water frozen so hard it could never thaw). The word is a relatively modern scientific coinage, built in the 20th century as physicists learned to chase temperatures toward absolute zero — the dreamier 'freeze yourself for later' sense (properly called cryonics) borrowed the same icy prefix.
- price tag
- Full-body freezing runs around 200,000 dollars
- first patient
- James Bedford, frozen in 1967, still chilling
- head only
- Neuro-preservation is the budget option
- no thaw
- Nobody frozen has ever been revived
- liquid nitrogen
- Bodies stored at minus 196 degrees Celsius
liquid nitrogen storage — used to preserve human sperm and eggs at -196°c in fertility clinics worldwide
alcor life extension — cryopreservation company in arizona that has preserved 200+ human bodies since 1972
james bedford cryopreservation — first human cryopreserved in 1967, still stored at alcor in california