Whether it is the reign of Qin Shi Huang or the monsters in the mythical story Journey to the West, or the immortal corpse in Buddhism, they all prove to us that wanting to live forever or come back from the dead is something that countless people have dreamed of from ancient times to the present.
In the eyes of the public, this was impossible, but in 1967, the United States had already begun to implement this bold idea, which they called the "frozen man experiment".
And when recruiting volunteers, they boldly imagined that they would be resurrected after a certain number of years of freezing.
Although it sounds a little weird and scary, there is still someone who dares to try to save his own life, and this person is a rich man in the United States - James Bedford
So, why did this person choose to do this?After all these years, what is the current situation?
New ideas have emerged in the American scientific community
The phrase "eternal life, for human beings, has infinite attraction" is true.
It's just that people always have to face death, and Qin Shi Huang, who was bent on seeking immortality during the Qin Dynasty, tried all kinds of methods for this, and finally collapsed.
Man is inherently dead, or heavier than Mount Tai, or lighter than a feather. ”
But some people don't believe in this evil, and always want to try, and they don't hesitate to spend a huge price.
That man was James Bedford, an American, and technology in the United States was developed enough in 1967.
At this juncture, James stumbled upon the frozen man experiment, so he filled out the volunteer form without hesitation.
And before he participated in the frozen man experiment, he also paid in advance for fifty years, up to one million.
So why is James willing to pay a lot of money to take this risk?
Immortal Heart
Maybe in our eyes in the era of 1967, maybe it was all sky-high, but James didn't take the money in his eyes.
Because he had business acumen, and at that time he could already be called a rich man, which was certainly nothing to him.
In fact, it was also because the problem he faced at that time was far more important than money, that is, he was about to lose his life.
He is actually a very transparent person, knowing that if there is no life, no matter how much money he wants, it is useless, so he chooses to save his life in this way.
In the face of life and death, no matter how powerful a person is, he will choose to surrender.
James was an extremely good man, because he was a university professor and a well-known investor before he was suffering from illness.
These identities also prompted him to directly become a wealthy man in one fell swoop.
But there are always unforeseen circumstances, and he suffers from cancer.
At this time, he was 70 years old, and in the eyes of ordinary people, 70 years old may not be considered an advanced age, but it is okay to live to this age.
But he was unwilling, because he couldn't let go of the "hundreds of millions of assets" that he had worked hard all his life to build, and he had to give them to others before he could enjoy them.
It wasn't until another month later, when the doctor told him that his cancer had spread, that James suddenly felt that money didn't seem to be so omnipotent.
During that time, he was depressed and afflicted by illness.
Later, a friend came to visit him, and when he was so uncomfortable, he told him what he thought in his heart - frozen people.
An idea that sounded so unreliable took deep root in James's heartAfter that, he began to search for books, and found that this had not been implemented before, and it was just a conjecture, and the technology was not mature.
He hesitated. But the torture of illness defeated him again, and he took the initiative to contact the friend, asking him to carefully introduce him to the specific content of this experiment.
The friend heard that James was interested in the matter, so he directly brought someone to James, tell him that the person may explain in more detail.
This man is – Robert Ettinger.
It was this person who put forward the conjecture of "frozen man", who believed that as long as the person was quickly frozen at the moment of death, it would not be difficult for the person to be revived again.
Robert Ettinger started from a cytological point of view, arguing that although human beings have died and organs are no longer functioning, the cells in the human body do not immediately stop moving.
In medicine, the real death is brain death, that is, the death of brain cells.
And he used this to argue his idea, believing that as long as the cells can be frozen and allowed to survive, then when the technology is developed and then thawed, people will have a chance to survive.
This idea is outrageous to many scientists in the scientific community, but there are always those who believe it, such as Robert, James's friends, and James.
That's right, after Robert's explanation, James was convinced of the matter.
Therefore, he directly signed a letter of commitment on the spot that he was willing to be the tester of this experiment.
And tell Robert: Please freeze him as soon as he dies.
James dies and the experiment begins
After this meeting, Robert began to prepare the equipment and data to be used in the experiment, as well as to sort out the data of James's body indicators, so as to achieve the best experimental effect and let James "come back from the dead".
After being well prepared, within a few days, Robert received the news that James had died in the hospital.
He and James' friends immediately rushed to the scene and transported James' body to the lab.
Because of James's status as the richest man, this incident caused a great sensation in the United States as soon as it came out, and because this was the world's first "frozen man" experiment at that time, there was no precedent before, so it also attracted the attention of the world.
There are also those who are eyeing this matter, because once James is successfully "resurrected", then people in the world who have the same thoughts as James will definitely conduct experiments one after another.
Robert didn't dare to stop for a moment to drain his blood, and after injecting him with some protective substances, he put it in liquid nitrogen at minus 196 degrees.
The reason for maintaining this temperature is also the result of Robert's precise calculations.
The process sounded simple, but it was extremely difficult to operate, and it took a lot of time for Robert to do it because it was the first time to conduct the experiment.
After successfully freezing James, it was announced to the world that after 50 years, the medical technology would be ready to thaw James.
As a result, a cryonics facility was established, and Robert has made a lot of money on this technology in just a few decades.
Because of the richest man effect, and because the people who were waiting for James couldn't wait for the results, and it was okay to see James, I thought that this laboratory could be tried.
SoA lot of people will come here and sign up for cryonics before they die.
Whether it is **
Although Robert himself does not rely on this experiment to make a profit, he never refuses to go to their institution to do "cryonics experiments", and he has done this many times, the technology is more mature, and the experimental time is becoming less and less.
But in a blink of an eye, 50 years later, Robert has also turned gray hair, but Robert has not been thawed, which also makes all parties more curious about whether James can be resurrected.
And Robert seems to be running away, because this is the first case of "frozen man", so it is extremely popular, and he is also using James to attract people's attention in disguise to prove his own experiment.
But he refused to thaw James for a long time, and there was always his explanation.
Over the years, under a lot of questioning, Robert always said that he would thaw James, but he always said that he had not implemented it, and he never announced James's current situation.
All this has to make people suspect that James has no possibility of resurrection.
Because human cells are also extremely short in life, they need to be frozen for a limited time.
But at the time of James' death, Robert was still in the lab, and it was impossible to freeze it immediately, there must have been a process before, so to speakIt is highly likely that James' cells had died by that time
And now the body does not decay because there is a low level of nitrogen, which temporarily freezes his body there, and if it is thawed, I don't know if the flesh still exists when exposed to the air.
And as Robert said, at present, there is no technology to overcome cancer in my country, so it will not be thawed, although this is responsible for James, but who dares to admit that there is a 100% ** rate of cancer?So it's most likely a prevarication on Robert's part.
Conclusion
Everyone wants to live forever, but death is the end of life, "frozen man" is either a ** or not has little to do with us, but it is still commendable for his spirit of contributing to scientific experiments.
At present, it is unknown whether it will be resurrected, but even if James is resurrected, the world has changed in a thousand ways, and he will be melancholy every day because he can't keep up with the times.
So what I want to tell you is:Life and death are fateful, and wealth is in the sky. We should not expect immortality, but live every day, so that we have no regrets at the time of death
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