Sermon Illustrations
The First Cryonically Preserved Human’s Fifty-Year Journey to Immortality
James Bedford was a psychology professor at the University of California. Prior to his death from cancer, Bedford expressed his desire to be cryogenically frozen. His hope was that his body could be repaired and his consciousness revived with more advanced future technology. Bedford willed $100,000 for the preservation of his body.
However, when he died in 1967 everyone was caught off guard. The science of cryogenics was little more ...