CI Case 283
Cryonics Institute Case Report for Patient Number 283
CI patient #283 was a 79 year old male from California. The patient was a CI member and hospitalized at the time of his death.
The patient died on February 11th 2026 at 5:52am. CI was not made aware that the patient was near death and the next of kin did not talk to the hospital about cooling after death. A cooperating funeral home removed the patient from the place of death and worked to obtain a transit permit and make transport arrangements to CI. Once the details for transport were in place, the patient was transported to Detroit Metro Airport, where he was picked up and brought to the facility. The patient arrived at the CI facility on February 13, 2026 at 3pm. Because of the amount of time that had passed, and because of the condition of the patient, a perfusion was not possible.
The patient was transferred to the computer controlled cooling chamber to cool to liquid nitrogen temperature. The amount of time needed to cool the patient to -196 was two days and 18 hours. The patient was then placed in a cryostat for long-term cryonic storage.