In mid-2019, I was reading a fascinating piece in Cosmos magazine, one of Australia’s eminent science publications. There was this one image of a man lying on an operating table, covered in bags of McCain’s frozen french fries and hash browns.
Scientists had discovered rapid cooling of the body might improve the survival rates of patients who had experienced heart attacks. This man was one such patient, thus the Frozen Food Fresco. The accompanying report was written by Paul Biegler, a bioethicist at Monash University, who had visited a trauma ward in Alfred hospital, Melbourne, to learn about this method in an effort to understand if humans could, in some distant future, be capable of hibernation.
