With a strong desire to live and money in hand, the richest man in America, James Bedford, spent all his fortune on freezing his body to wait for revival.
If one day you unfortunately get cancer and are about to die, what will you do? Most people will choose to enjoy their last moments in this world, then peacefully say goodbye to this world.
In 1967, the richest man in America got stomach cancer and did not have much longer to live. But driven by a strong “will to live”, he spent a large sum of money to “freeze” himself, hoping that when medicine becomes more advanced in the future, people will revive him and cure that deadly disease.
This news created a fever all over the world at that time, and he became the first person on Earth to be “frozen”. Until now, more than 50 years have passed, has this plan been successful? Was he “reincarnated”?
James Bedford, born in 1893 in Massachusetts, USA, into a wealthy family. Since childhood, James lived in material abundance. When he grew up, with his intelligence and talent, James succeeded in business and with the help of his family, became the real “richest man in America”.
Not only was James successful in his career, he also had a happy family. He had two wives and a total of five children.
To everyone, James was a successful person in life, had a lot of money to spend and had a wife and children by his side. James wanted to enjoy his old age like that, but fate played a joke on him.
The richest man in America is also the first person in the world to be frozen. Photo: Internet
The richest man in America is also the first person in the world to be frozen. Photo: Internet
In 1965, James, 72 years old, was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, this news was like a bolt from the blue to him. James had always been in good health and had never been sick, but he contracted this terrible disease
James felt a lot of pain inside, because there were still many things he had not done. Therefore, he began to go everywhere to find a doctor, wanting to find the last hope for himself. But how could cancer be cured? James’s illness became more and more serious, facing death, he was really scared.
At this time, a friend gave James a book about freezing the human body. In it, it was said that through freezing technology, it was possible to effectively prevent the death of cells in the human body, and in the future, it would be possible to revive after death.
James felt that all of this was unimaginable. Because he himself had a strong will to live, after reading this book, a bold idea flashed. From then on, James began to pay attention to the development of “human body freezing”, and then he became acquainted with Robert Ettinger’s assistant, Robert Nelson, who was very passionate about “human body freezing technology”.
Although Nelson was just an ordinary electrician with little education, he was also interested in human body freezing technology. He began to research it and became Robert Ettinger’s assistant.
Since getting to know Nelson, James has shared many of his views with him. James felt that he had to seize this opportunity. He believed that if he froze his body, 50 years later, when he woke up, perhaps medicine would have advanced, his cancer could be cured, and then he could start a new life.
It is expected that James will be resurrected in 2017. Photo: Internet
As expected, James will be revived in 2017. Photo: Internet
In order for the research to proceed smoothly, James spent $4,200 to buy liquid nitrogen and a freezing chamber, and left most of his assets to maintain freezing and related research in the future.
In 1967, James’s life came to an end, with the support of his family, James left this world, when the doctor announced that James had passed away, the “Freezing Plan” also officially began.
In fact, when James was about to die, he was very calm, feeling that he was just going to sleep, and one day he would definitely wake up.
50 years of waiting, how is James now?
After the doctor announced that James had passed away, the freezing team waiting nearby began to carry out the previously set plan, processing James’s body. First, they bathed him with cold water, then cooled his body and drained all the blood from his body. Finally, they injected a large amount of dimethyl sulfoxide (a preservative) into his body, which lowered his body temperature, and finally
