CI Case 278
Cryonics Institute Case Report for Patient Number 278
CI patient #278 was a 56 year old male from Missouri. The patient was a CI member and was hospitalized at the time of his death.
The patient died on November 19, 2025. CI was not notified of his hospitalization or his passing until November 24th, so it was not possible to perform a perfusion with the cryoprotective solutions. A local funeral home in Missouri was contacted to get the patient into dry ice and arrange for his transportation. The patient was transported to Detroit Metro Airport on dry ice and was then brought into the care of CI. The patient arrived at our facility on December 3, 2025.
The patient was then transferred to the computer controlled cooling chamber to cool to liquid nitrogen temperature. The human dry ice program was selected and the time needed to cool the patient to liquid nitrogen temperature was 25 hours. The patient was then placed in a cryostat for long-term cryonic storage.