{"id":33612,"date":"2017-01-19T14:23:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T22:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/after-50-years-frozen-wwi-veterans-body-awaits-reanimation"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:58:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:58:47","slug":"after-50-years-frozen-wwi-veterans-body-awaits-reanimation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/after-50-years-frozen-wwi-veterans-body-awaits-reanimation","title":{"rendered":"After 50 years, frozen WWI veteran\u2019s body awaits reanimation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-50-years-frozen-wwi-veterans-body-awaits-reanimation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis body, along with the others, will remain frozen indefinitely, with enough ongoing financial support to sustain its current state, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.au\">news.com.au<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate successfully froze and reanimated a rabbit brain\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Since his death, James Bedford\u2019s body has been cryogenically frozen and awaiting reanimation on the edge of the Sonaran Desert in Arizona. This week marks the 50th year of Bedford\u2019s deep freeze, making him the oldest \u201cde-animated\u201d human being on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Bedford\u2019s body is stored in the Alcor Life Extensions Foundation in Scottsdale, where it\u2019s kept alongside 146 other frozen bodies, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/science\/human-body\/human-bodies-frozen-in-desert-facility-waiting-for-science-to-wake-them-up\/news-story\/db8632fc98b5d1361744bb4f989098bc?from=rss-basic\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.au\">news.com.au<\/a><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the Cryonics Institute in Michigan and KrioRus in Russia, Alcor is one of three cryogenic facilities worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2017\/01\/18\/after-50-years-frozen-wwi-veterans-body-awaits-reanimation.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2017\/01\/18\/after-50-years-froz...ation.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHis body, along with the others, will remain frozen indefinitely, with enough ongoing financial support to sustain its current state, news.com.au reported. Last year, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate successfully froze and reanimated a rabbit brain\u201d. Since his death, James Bedford\u2019s body has been cryogenically frozen and awaiting reanimation on the edge of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2017,45,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryonics","category-finance","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49294,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33612\/revisions\/49294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}