Freezing and storing the human body is certainly not a new process. The origins go back almost 250 years ago, and the idea has been very popular ever since.
Cryonic freezing dates back to 1773 in a letter written by Benjamin Franklin. However, the subject he briefly wrote about required almost 200 years to come to life. A physicist named Robert Ettinger began to work on freezing the human body, and it has been consistently researched since then.
A lot more scientists worked on Ettinger's experiment, and 5 years later, the very first full human body freeze is accomplished, making James Bedford the first human in history to be medically frozen.