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  1. Practice of freezing a body at the moment of
  2. clinical death with the aim of enabling
  3. eventual resuscitation. The body, drained of
  4. blood, is indefinitely preserved in a
  5. thermos-type container filled with liquid
  6. nitrogen at -196 degrees C/-321 degrees F.
  7. The first human treated was James H Bedford,
  8. a lung-cancer patient of 74, in the USA in
  9. 1967.
  10.