January 12, 1967, Dr. James Bedford became the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
Cryogenic preservation for future revival of brain and somatic function has been a concept often used in science fiction, such as in the 1966 grade B horror film The Frozen Dead and the 1976 novel A World Out of Time — the latter in which author Larry Niven dubs the recipients of such treatment “corpsicles.”
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Multiple examples exist of people revived many minutes after death, under circumstances in which the diving reflex did not come into play. These people are invariably vegetative. Dr Bedford’s body was not treated for suspension until a still greater lapse of time. His brain was already an utter ruin. Even if his body could be restored to life, the person is surely lost forever. The whole business wasn’t even worthwhile as an experiment; it was just a misguided ritual.