CI Case 254
Cryonics Institute Case Report for Patient Number 254
CI patient #254 was a 50 year old male from England. The patient was a CI member at the time of his death.
The patient had cancer and was under hospice care at the time of his death. The patient died on February 29th, 2024. Cryonics UK was present at the time of death and provided standby, perfusion and transport services to the patient. Details of the standby will be provided once they are available to us.
Once the patient was perfused, he was held in dry ice in a funeral home in London until transportation arrangements were made. Once the arrangements were in place, the patient was transported to Detroit Metro Airport, in dry ice, where he was picked up and brought to the CI facility. The patient arrived at the facility at 8:30pm on March 14th, 2024.
The patient was then transferred to the computer controlled cooling chamber to cool to liquid nitrogen temperature. The human vitrification program was selected and the time needed to cool the patient to liquid nitrogen temperature was five days and 11 hours. The patient was then placed in a cryostat for long-term cryonic storage.