Is cryonics a scam? Looking back at the history of cryonics, we can find that it was a good wish of many people to use the most advanced technology in the medical field to resurrect after freezing, and many people were willing to pay time and money for it. However, with the passage of time, this situation has changed a lot. Not all scientists and professional medical workers carry out this kind of scientific research, and it has begun to be doped with too many commercial ingredients. Many businessmen took this as a gimmick and began to harvest the money of people who had not spent all their money, but could not be reincarnated for various reasons. So cryonics at this time may gradually become a scam, but its existence still has his unique significance.

The first real frozen man in the world was James Bedford, an American rich man who didn't want to die of cancer. 1967 65438+1October 12, in an operating room in the United States, an unprecedented operation-cryonics is under intense pressure. Robert Ettinger, an American university professor, presided over the world's first human body freezing project. He is called "the father of cryonics". James Bedford was frozen immediately after his death, and his blood was taken away and filled with antifreeze. James Bedford is the only one who survived among the earliest frozen people (1973 years ago).

Bedford was resurrected 50 years later, that is, in 20 17. However, five years have passed since 20 17, and Bedford is still frozen. And there is less and less news about him. The official reason is that human beings have not conquered cancer, and it is meaningless to thaw the resurrection. Although the first frozen man was not resurrected, it had a good demonstration effect and many people flocked to it. Alco Life Extension Fund has also developed into the largest and most famous cryonics institution in the world, freezing more than 300 people in the past 50 years. These people are waiting for a moment to come and be awakened by human beings again.

Whether the human body can be revived after freezing depends on three technical problems:

First, the body at the time of death.

The key to cryopreservation of human body is that the freezing operation should be completed quickly within 10 minutes or even 5 minutes after death, so as to ensure the survival of cells. A quick and effective operation is the first step.

Second, how to thaw is a hot potato.

Just like Alcor Company in an accidental opportunity, on the surface, these frozen people just have some cracks on their skin. Once the thawing is completed, the situation becomes quite bad-the flesh is cracked from the skin to the internal organs, and the bones, blood vessels, intestines, heart and other organs are broken and broken ... basically incomplete. In this case, even thawing is of no value.

Third, the structure of the human body determines the irreversibility of life.

The aging of the human body is an irreversible process, and freezing the human body just presses a pause button. Even if it is thawed, it will only give you a fresh dead person. This goes against the original intention of freezing.

So many people say that Professor Robert Ettinger is a liar, and Alcol Company is a money-collecting institution. In fact, I don't completely think that many human beings have developed through misunderstanding and doubt in the pursuit of science. Many ideas will be regarded as whimsical or ulterior motives for a long time at that time. But history has proved that many skeptics have been hit in the face many times. Science is developing with a force beyond human imagination or control. So we should support these brave explorers from the original intention.

If a bad result and a possible good lie were presented to you at the same time, which would you choose? I will choose beautiful lies and wait for beautiful things to happen again. Cryopreservation technology is a practitioner of human beings' good wish to get rid of the shackles of time and live forever.