Cryonics has been a subject of scientific experiments for a long time making the idea of preserving a dead human body to hopefully be brought back to life later when there is a cure, almost real. While there have been other cases reported, a Chinese woman became the first in her country to be cryogenically frozen after she died of lung cancer.
According to a report in IB Times, after her death, 49-year-old Zhan Wenlian's husband volunteered her to be frozen in liquid nitrogen for the “life preservation project”. The procedure will have Zhan submerged in 2,000 litres of the liquid at the Yingfeng Biological Group in Jinan at -196 degrees Celsius in a 55-hour procedure which is said to have cost Rs 1.9 crores.
The doctors have injected various chemicals into her body to reduce blood clotting and damage to her brain while also adding chemicals instead of blood to preserve her organs. Interestingly, they have also wrapped her body in a sleeping bag and put it in a metal capsule. The doctors at the Shandong Yingfeng Life Sciences Research Institute have also extracted stem cells from her blood to help her revival or the family medically.