Can you freeze your body and come back to life? - Shannon N. Tessier
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In 1967, James Bedford had a plan to cheat death. He was the first person to be cryogenically frozen. This process promised to preserve his body until a theoretical future when humanity could cure any illness, and essentially, reverse death. So is it possible to freeze a human, preserve them indefinitely, and then thaw them out? Shannon N. Tessier explores the challenges of human cryopreservation.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator
- Shannon N. Tessier
- Director
- Gavin Edwards, Movult
- Narrator
- Pen-Pen Chen
- Music
- Stephen LaRosa
- Sound Designer
- Stephen LaRosa
