Will humans ever posses the technology to revive a dead person back to life?
Dr. James Hiram Bedford certainly hopes so.
James Hiram Bedford was an American psychology professor at the University of California.
Bedford was suffering from kidney cancer that had metastasized into his lungs.
Death, he knew, was imminent.
He quickly willed $100,000 for the preservation of his body.
When the old man finally kicked the bucket on January 12, 1967, everyone was caught off guard.
Cryopreservation was only used for small tissues and cells such as sperms and eggsnever for an entire body.
She then called the Life Extension Society, a group founded in 1964 to promote cryonic suspension of people.
Bedford is injected with dimethyl sulfoxide following his death on the afternoon of 12 January, 1967.
If Bedford is ever revived he will most certainly look like a ghost.
Bedford, the report reads, is not currently, legally alive.
But neither is he dead.
Some of the canisters where bodies are preserved.
A single canister can hold four whole-bodies and five heads.
The technology behind cryonics has improved since Bedfords time but there is still no evidence the process works.
Over 300 bodies and brains are currently preserved in between them, with3,000 moresigned up to join them.
They include people mostly from the US,closely followedby the UK, Canada, Australia and Germany.
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