Редактирование: Sarah Gilbert

[[File:Sarah Gilbert.jpg|thumb|right|200px|An approximate face reconstruction of "Sarah Gilbert" based on archival photos]]
"'''Sarah Frances Gilbert'''"<ref name="Cryonics 2017">[https://www.alcor.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-2017-03.pdf A Year of Jubilees: Some Important Cryonics Anniversaries]. [[R. Michael Perry]]. ''[[Cryonics (magazine)|Cryonics]]'' 2017 #3 (pages 34–35)</ref> (born probably August 8, 1908, [[legal death]] c. February 1966)<ref name="Cryonics 2017" /> is the possible name of a woman who was [[Cryopreservation|cryopreserved]] by the [[Cryo-Care Equipment Corporation]] on April 22, 1966.<ref name="Cryonics 2017" /><ref name="FWR May 1966 p. 184">[https://www.biostasis.com/pdfs/freezewaitreanimate.pdf The First Freezing of a Human Body Is Reported to Have Been Accomplished]. ''[[Freeze-Wait-Reanimate]]''. May 1966 (page 184 of the file)</ref> This was the first instance of a human being frozen with at least some thought of the [[cryonics]] premise of eventual [[revival]], though conditions were adverse and prospects discouraging, as was admitted.<ref name="Suspension Failures">[https://www.alcor.org/library/suspension-failures-lessons-from-the-early-years/ Suspension Failures: Lessons from the Early Years]. [[R. Michael Perry]]. alcor.org</ref><ref name="Chicago Daily News">[https://www.biostasis.com/pdfs/freezewaitreanimate.pdf Dead men's hopes put on ice]. ''Chicago Daily News''. January 29, 1968 (pages 372–373 of the file)</ref> She was cryopreserved almost a year before [[James Bedford]].

Cryo-Care did not use [[cryoprotectant]]s or [[perfusion]] with their patients but only did [[straight freeze]]s to [[liquid nitrogen]] temperature.<ref name="Suspension Failures" /> These freezings were advertised as being for cosmetic purposes rather than eventual reanimation.<ref name="Suspension Failures" /> But, her relatives had an interest in her preservation for future revival and not just cosmetic preservation.<ref name="Cryonics 2017" /> However, [[Ed Hope]], the president of Cryo-Care, did not believe in her revival.<ref name="Chicago Daily News" />

Her anonymity was desired by her family.<ref name="FWR May 1966 p. 183">[https://www.biostasis.com/pdfs/freezewaitreanimate.pdf The First Freezing of a Human Body Is Reported to Have Been Accomplished]. ''[[Freeze-Wait-Reanimate]]''. May 1966 (page 183 of the file)</ref> The patient, a still-unidentified, middle-aged woman from the Los Angeles area, was placed in liquid nitrogen some two months after being [[Embalming|embalmed]] and stored at slightly above-freezing temperature in a mortuary refrigerator.<ref name="Suspension Failures" /> Within a year she was thawed and buried by relatives.<ref name="Suspension Failures" />

== Sources ==
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== External links ==
* [https://www.alcor.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-2017-03.pdf A Year of Jubilees: Some Important Cryonics Anniversaries]. [[R. Michael Perry]]. ''[[Cryonics (magazine)|Cryonics]]'' 2017 #3 (pages 34–35)
* [https://www.biostasis.com/a-freezing-before-bedfords/ A Freezing Before Bedford's]. [[R. Michael Perry]]

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