Facebook Twitter 新浪微博 google plus Instagram YouTube Thursday 24 September 2015
Search
Archive
English
English>>People's Daily Online Exclusives

Chinese sci-fi writer has brain frozen after death, wishing to be awoken in future

(People's Daily Online)    15:30, September 24, 2015
Email|Print
Chinese sci-fi writer has brain frozen after death, wishing to be awoken in future
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.

(For the latest China news, Please follow People's Daily on Twitter and Facebook)(Editor:Gao Yinan,Bianji)

Add your comment

Related reading

We Recommend

Most Viewed

Day|Week

Key Words