{"id":75446,"date":"2018-01-21T02:02:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T10:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/fifty-years-frozen-the-worlds-first-cryonically-preserved-humans-disturbing-journey-to-immortality"},"modified":"2018-01-21T02:02:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T10:02:30","slug":"fifty-years-frozen-the-worlds-first-cryonically-preserved-humans-disturbing-journey-to-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/fifty-years-frozen-the-worlds-first-cryonically-preserved-humans-disturbing-journey-to-immortality","title":{"rendered":"Fifty years frozen: The world\u2019s first cryonically preserved human\u2019s disturbing journey to immortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fifty-years-frozen-the-worlds-first-cryonically-preserved-humans-disturbing-journey-to-immortality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, Mr. Bedford is here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what Marji Klima, executive assistant at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona, told me over email this week. She was referring to Dr. James Hiram Bedford, a former University of California-Berkeley psychology professor who died of renal cancer on Jan. 12, 1967. Bedford was the first human to be cryonically preserved\u2014that is, frozen and stored indefinitely in the hopes that technology to revive him will one day exist. He\u2019s been at Alcor since 1991.<\/p>\n<p>His was the first of 300 bodies and brains currently preserved in the world\u2019s three known commercial cryonics facilities: Alcor; the Cryonics Institute in Clinton Township, Michigan; and KrioRus near Moscow. Another 3,000 people still living have arranged to join them upon what cryonicists call \u201cdeanimation.\u201d In other words, death.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/883524\/fifty-years-frozen-the-worlds-first-cryonically-preserved-humans-disturbing-journey-to-immortality\/\">https:\/\/qz.com\/883524\/fifty-years-frozen-the-worlds-first-cr...mortality\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYes, Mr. Bedford is here.\u201d That\u2019s what Marji Klima, executive assistant at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona, told me over email this week. She was referring to Dr. James Hiram Bedford, a former University of California-Berkeley psychology professor who died of renal cancer on Jan. 12, 1967. Bedford was the first human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2017,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cryonics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75446","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}