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Cryogenics : Freezing people is more than a reality now...

The science of deep freezing a body(deceased) is called Cryonics inorder to one day reviving them. It has been a phenomenon of keen interest by many for serious scientific exploration and study. It is also a fair share of pseudoscience, lore, and myth. Comical notes like Batman’s Iceman, and the (untrue) rumors of Walt Disney Sleeping Beauty have unfortunately, cast a non explainable shadow over the field of cryonics. Well, for the first time ever in China this has become a truth as a woman is recently cryogenically frozen. Women named Zhan Wenlian had died at the age of 49 from lung cancer, her husband, Gui Junmin, “volunteered” her for the cryonic procedure and said it was her will to donate herself to science to “give back to society.” He told Mirror UK that he was initially “pitched” the idea of cryonics with it being described as a “life preservation project.” This procedure — which has Wenlian’s body resting facedown in 2,000 liters of liquid nitrogen — was co...