The Story of James Bedford: The First Cryonically Preserved Human

Among the most riveting and, at the same time, controversial aspects striding on the cutting edge of science is arguably the practice of cryonics: which is defined by freezing a human body with hopes of being able to revive it when future technologies may allow advanced medicine to cure the ills that ended the life. Bedford was the first subject to always remain frozen after his death. In the cradle stages of this futuristic film, a novel was published, ‘The Cryonists’ wherein fictitious characters cryonics cryonically preserved.

Who Was James Bedford?

On January 20 1893, James Hiram Bedford was born in United States. Bedford witnessed the early and mid 20th century and worked as a psychology professor, which meant his live was full of academic pursuits. Other than being diagnosed with kidney cancer around the middle 1960s, he lived a fairly undisturbed existence. Subsequent to succumbing to cancer in 1967, he had a life after death.

James Bedford made an unanticipated entrance to cryonics when during the last couple days of his life he became Anne McClain’s guinea pig for the most screwy procedure which in the world’s future would fashion how mortal remains would have to be preserved.

Cryonics: Preserving the Body With Hope for Revival in One’s Future

The goal of cryonics is to keep a human body after its death by freezing it at very low temperatures hoping that with the advancement in medical technology.