She is the ‘patient zero’ who first took the gamble on a second life.
Rhea Ettinger was the first person to be suspended at the Cryonics Institute in the hope of a future awakening She is the unlikely pioneer who took the first gamble on a second life. Five decades after her legal death, Rhea Chaloff Ettinger’s body remains in a liquid nitrogen-filled cylinder resembling a space station pod. For around a decade, she was the only ‘patient’ stored at a cryo-preservation centre run by the Cryonics Institute .
‘A lot of what he did in the 1960s was philosophical and it wasn’t until the 1970s when his mother died that he took up the practical and set up the Cryonics Institute and had her frozen. ‘After all, who better to look after his mum than himself?’ Rhea Ettinger was the first patient to have their body frozen at the Cryonics Institute Rhea’s family came to the US from Odessa when it was still part of Russia.
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