Sarah Gilbert
"Sarah Frances Gilbert"[1] (born probably August 8, 1908, legal death c. February 1966)[1] is the possible name of a woman who was cryopreserved by the Cryo-Care Equipment Corporation on April 22, 1966.[1][2] 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.[3][4] She was cryopreserved almost a year before James Bedford.
Cryo-Care did not use cryoprotectants or perfusion with their patients but only did straight freezes to liquid nitrogen temperature.[3] These freezings were advertised as being for cosmetic purposes rather than eventual reanimation.[3] But, her relatives had an interest in her preservation for future revival and not just cosmetic preservation.[1] However, Ed Hope, the president of Cryo-Care, did not believe in her revival.[4]
Her anonymity was desired by her family.[5] The patient, a still-unidentified, middle-aged woman from the Los Angeles area, was placed in liquid nitrogen some two months after being embalmed and stored at slightly above-freezing temperature in a mortuary refrigerator.[3] Within a year she was thawed and buried by relatives.[3]
Sources
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 A Year of Jubilees: Some Important Cryonics Anniversaries. R. Michael Perry. Cryonics 2017 #3 (pages 34–35)
- ↑ The First Freezing of a Human Body Is Reported to Have Been Accomplished. Freeze-Wait-Reanimate. May 1966 (page 184 of the file)
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3 3,4 Suspension Failures: Lessons from the Early Years. R. Michael Perry. alcor.org
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 Dead men's hopes put on ice. Chicago Daily News. January 29, 1968 (pages 372–373 of the file)
- ↑ The First Freezing of a Human Body Is Reported to Have Been Accomplished. Freeze-Wait-Reanimate. May 1966 (page 183 of the file)