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betting your body on a future that hasn't invented the reheat button yet.
means cooling biological material (cells, embryos, or entire humans) to sub-zero temperatures to halt decay and preserve it indefinitely.
from from greek kryos meaning frost, joined to preservation; practical use began with frozen sperm in the 1950s before ambition scaled up to whole bodies.
vitrificationcooling fast enough to skip ice-crystal formation entirely
first patientjames bedford, frozen in 1967, still stored today
cost realitywhole-body preservation can run six figures upfront
legal statusonly performed after legal death, not before