
![]() |
| Du Hong (Photo/china.com.cn) |
Du Hong, a popular writer of children's literature from Chongqing, has had her remains frozen after her death in May in the hope of one day being brought back to life.
This is the first known case of a Chinese citizen using cryonics, the controversial practice of preserving a human body at extremely low temperatures. The process involves storing bodies in aluminium containers in super-cold (minus 196 degrees Celsius) liquid nitrogen.
Du Hong hoped that the technology of the future might be able to reanimate her brain. She paid over $120,000 to freeze it. Her brain was sent from China to the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Traditional Chinese culture rules that the body must be intact to prepare it for the afterlife. But Hong organized all of this in preparation for her death caused by pancreatic cancer on May 30, wishing to be subject to the very sci-fi experiments she conjured up in her writing.
Construction of HK-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge enters final stage
Model of heavy-lift copter makes debuts at Tianjin expo
Art photos of Chinese beauty in Han Chinese clothing
Stunning photos of air show in China’s V-Day parade
Models change clothes on street in Hangzhou
Charming Chinese female soldiers
Beauty vs. muscular man
World's passenger plane giants convene in Beijing aviation expo
First day in kindergarten
China not deluded by communist ideals
Negative list will boost market vitality experts
After attacks on judges, insiders say building trust in courts is crucial
Machines increasingly take the place of humans in China’s factoriesDay|Week