Comments on: James Bedford: The First “Cryonaut”

By: VW

VW — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:36:32 +0000

The TAL story deals briefly with the freezing of James Bedford. It’s all about Bob Nelson, who performed Bedford’s suspension, and the rise and disastrous fall of the Cryonics Society of California:

http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=354

By: konshuss

konshuss — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:10:03 +0000

Humanity is amazing. Somehow most of our modern inventions have come within the last 100 years. Our ability to understand that if you freeze a human, they will die, still seems lost on many.

By: sw

sw — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:43:44 +0000

this american life had a GREAT piece on a cryo clinic that went out of business, and how they tried to keep the bodies cold (with limited success). you can stream it free on their website.

By: Scooter

Scooter — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:14:52 +0000

I love the term “deanimated”

By: Frau

Frau — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:21:02 +0000

I am guessing that because he was still wrapped in the bed sheet and then dry ice was placed on the body. He suffered from severe freezer burn.

By: Factran

Factran — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:02:03 +0000

question :
What will happend to him, when his descendent will refuse to pay the fee to keep him at low temperature ?

By: ted

ted — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:45:42 +0000

That article could have benefited from intensive editing. I would have made him rewrite the first several pargraphs which were more about the author, and shorten everything else.

By: zav

zav — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:26:41 +0000

What happened to Mike Darwin?

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:36:17 +0000

I remember sandwich board ads for DMSO, and there being some controversy about the dealers back in the 80s. I always thought it was some weight loss scheme.