The entire body of a 49-year-old woman from Shandong Province has now been stored in a container filled with liquefied nitrogen for a year, reports Xinhua News Agency.

 

新华社报道，山东省某位49岁女性的全部身体被储存到一个装有液氮的容器里，已储存一年。

 

The body of Zhan Wenlian was cryogenically frozen by the Yinfeng Institute of Biological Sciences soon after she died of lung cancer on May 8, 2017.

 

Over the past year, the container has successfully preserved her body, while consuming 40 liters of liquefied nitrogen each day.

 

Zhan's case has triggered debates over the ethics¹ of preserving bodies.

 

If cryopreservation is only used for organ donation, it refers to some legal procedures; however, once it is used for body resurrection, it would be very complex in terms of ethics, said Dai Xin, a law professor at the Ocean University of China.

 

Zhan's husband said her last wish was to donate her body for medical research and the storage of her body complies with that wish.

 

It is an innovative² probe in biology to seek the development of organ storage and resurrection skills to better serve patients and to promote the donation of bodies, organs and hemopoietic stem cells, said Jia Chunsheng, Vice³ Chairman of the Yinfeng Institute of Biological Sciences.

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