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James Hiram Bedford (April 20, 1893 – January 12, 1967) was an American psychology professor at the University of California who wrote several books on occupational counseling. [1] He is the first person whose body was cryopreserved after legal death , and remains preserved at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation .
This list contains notable people who plan to be or have been cryopreserved after legal death. Living people who plan to be cryopreserved ... James Bedford, 1967 [16 ...
The first body to be cryopreserved and then frozen in hope of future revival was that of James Bedford. Alcor's Mike Darwin says Bedford's body was cryopreserved around two hours after his death by cardiorespiratory arrest (secondary to metastasized kidney cancer) on January 12, 1967. [53]
January 12 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with the intent of future resuscitation. January 14 The New York Times reports that the U.S. Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments. The Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the event sets the stage for the Summer of Love.
The first human corpse to be frozen with the hope of future resurrection was James Bedford's, a few hours after his cancer-caused death in 1967. [15] Bedford's is the only cryonics corpse frozen before 1974 still frozen today.
1967 - Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation; 1996 - Death of Joachim Nitsche, German mathematician (b. 1926) 2003 - Death of Alan Nunn May, English physicist and Soviet spy (b. 1911) 2004 - Death of Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
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In 1978, after teaching surgery as a research associate at UCLA, Leaf founded Cryovita Laboratories. Cryovita was a for-profit organization which provided cryopreservation services and the building for Alcor in the 1980s, including storage of the first cryonics patient, James Bedford, from 1982. [9]