Frozen in time: what is cryogenics and how does it work?
There are around 250 people cryopreserved in the US alone. As the procedure hit the headlines again this week, we look at why people are freezing their bodies after death
Aaccording to a paper published in the Journal of Medical Ethics last year, at least 250 people have so far been cryopreserved in the US
File photograph of Jerry Lemler , former president of Alcor Life Extension Institute in Scottsdale, Arizona, with some of the company’s cryogenic chambers. Photograph: Getty
It is an urban myth that Walt Disney was the first person to be cryogenically frozen, and stored in liquid nitrogen, following his death in 1966.