Pretty Sassy

So you may of heard about Cryonics, the science of freezing people(post mortem) in nitrogen or helium so that they can be reanimated at a later date when they cure whatever disease got them down.

I recently listened to an episode of This American Life titled “Mistakes were Made”

The story of how the practice of actually freezing the first candiates is utterly fascinating because of how backwards and wrong it was(not the principal of Cryonics but they way it was just done on the fly).

They interview 1960’s TV Repairman Bob Nelson who joined a California Cryonics enthusiast group and used his charismatic personality to become the president of the group. Also in the group were a bevy of real scientists who were starting up the research. This was until members of the group(many were elderly and poor) started passing away. Without any real science to back him up, any financing, or any deep knowledge, he started doing Cryonic freezings himself.

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