The rich man who entered the cryogenic warehouse 54 years ago plans to be "resurrected" in 2017. How is the situation now?

Birth, old age, sickness and death are things that everyone needs to experience, but there are always some people who think that they have not enjoyed their life well, so they want to extend their lifespan through various methods. But if there is no disease or disaster, there is still hope. If you are terminally ill, or a disease that cannot be cured with the medical technology at that time, it will always make people feel hopeless.

More than half a century ago, a rich man in the United States thought of a way to prolong his life because he was terminally ill. Who is this rich American man? What else did he think of?

Frozen Rich

The person who will be frozen in his own name is James Bedford. He was born in the United States, and his family is rich and has some background. His life has always been smooth sailing. But when will something happen to her about Qin Tianpeili - he was diagnosed with stomach cancer.

Even now with the development of medical technology, cancer is still an extremely difficult disease to cure. Although cancer will not die immediately, the process of treatment is quite painful, and the cure rate has never increased. Not to mention the 1960s, when it can be said that suffering from cancer was basically a declaration of death.

But as a rich man, is James willing to die of illness in such a suffocating way? Of course he didn't want to. what can we do about it? At that time, there was no way to rely on medical technology. Even as a rich man, he could not make medical technology suddenly make great progress. There is no cure, there is only other way to think of it.

In those days, people's thinking was very active, and various hypotheses were often put forward. As early as 1931, a science fiction novel called "Strange Stories" came out. This novel proposed the idea of ​​"freezing" and "resurrection". Although this was only proposed in science fiction, it gave Many scientists have inspired-animals also hibernate in winter to slow down cell movement. If you freeze people at a suitable low temperature, wait until the right time, and then thaw them, so that these people can be reborn in the future?

James thinks this technology is very good, so after making a will on January 12, 1967, he frozen his body, and he plans to thaw himself in 2017, cure his disease, and achieve a new life. Purpose.

James also fits into the world's first human being to be frozen.

wake? frozen

It's already 2021, what about James, who was scheduled to unfreeze in 2017? Is he awake?

It is a pity that it is not. From the perspective of current technology, human beings do not have the technology to thaw and awaken frozen people. That is to say, at least now, human beings cannot revive frozen people and gain new life. As for James, it is a big problem.

You must know that James was not frozen when he was alive. On the contrary, he began to be frozen after the doctor announced his death. That is to say, at that time, all the functions of his body had slowly stopped moving, and the doctor needed Quickly freezing James while his body was still in motion requires them to control the time extremely accurately. A slight error means that what they have been freezing all these years is a real dead person.

More importantly, even if James wakes up now, what awaits him is still hopeless death. Up to now, gastric cancer is still a problem that has not been completely overcome by human beings, and the cure rate of cancer is still at a very low level.

Therefore, even though it has been 54 years since James was frozen, the half century he had planned has already passed, but James still cannot wake up from the freezing, and he will continue to sleep and wait indefinitely.

Feasibility of human freezing

Before discussing this issue, we need to understand what is human freezing? At present, in order to study human freezing, scientists have built a special purpose place for it, which is filled with liquid nitrogen production equipment. Nitrogen is an inert gas, and he rarely participates in chemical reactions. Naturally, there is no problem in freezing the human body.

When the human body is at an extremely low temperature, the movement of cells will be delayed, as will natural aging, so it is theoretically feasible to freeze the human body.

But the feasibility of the theory does not mean that this thing is feasible. It is not difficult to freeze the human body, and it can be done with liquid nitrogen. But for now, thawing is a big problem. You must know that the human body is a system. If it is completely frozen, thawing it will not be an easy task. At least, with the current level of human thawing, it is impossible to thaw a human body with a complex structure.

After all, James' freezing plan is just a delusion, and according to the current human cognition, the disease of cancer, once it occurs, is almost irreversible, it is like reversing the life and death of human beings. When James was implementing the freezing plan, he had already passed away. It can be said that it is impossible to collect two, and the chance of James' resurrection is slim.