Cryonic Preservation: The 50-Year Journey of the First Person Placed in Cryogenic Storage
In 1967, Dr. James Hiram Bedford, a World War I veteran and professor at the University of California, made a historic decision to have his body cryonically preserved. Facing kidney cancer that had spread to his lungs, Bedford became interested in the idea after reading Dr. Robert Ettinger’s book The Prospect of Immortality. At a…