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.
What is the relationship between rapid cooling/rewarming rates and the size of the living system? Why is it harder to cool/rewarm larger systems uniformly? How do temperature differences throughout the system cause cracks?
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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
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Senior Producer Anna Bechtol
- Associate Producer Sazia Afrin
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Senior Editorial Producer Dan Kwartler
- Fact-Checker Charles Wallace
