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Title: Man Who Cryogenically Froze Late Wife Sparks Debate By Dating New
Partner

Link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/19/0...

A Chinese man who cryogenically preserved his wife after her death has
sparked a heated online debate after it emerged he began dating a new partner
in 2020. Some argue it's natural for him to move on, while others say he's
being selfish or disrespectful to both his late wife and his current partner.
The BBC reports: As a sign of his devotion, Gui Junmin decided to freeze his
wife Zhan Wenlian's body after she died from lung cancer in 2017, aged 49,
making her China's first cryogenically preserved person. But after a November
interview revealed he had been dating a different partner since 2020, Chinese
social media has been torn on Mr Junmin's predicament. Whilst some asked why
the 57-year-old didn't just "let go" another commenter remarked he appeared
to be "most devoted to himself." After Zhan Wenlian was given months to live
by doctors, Gui Junmin decided to use cryonics - which is scientifically
unproven - to preserve her body once she died. Following her death, he signed
a 30-year agreement to preserve his wife's frozen body with the Shandong
Yinfeng Life Science Research Institute. Since then, Zhan's body has been
stored in a 2,000-litre container at the institute in a vat of -190C liquid
nitrogen. Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly revealed that although Mr Junmin
lived alone for two years after the procedure, in 2020 he began dating again,
despite his wife remaining in cryopreservation. He told the newspaper that a
severe gout attack which left him unable to move for two days began to change
his mind about the benefits of living alone. Soon after, he started seeing
his current partner Wang Chunxia, although Mr Junmin suggested to the paper
the love was only "utilitarian" and that she hadn't "entered" his heart.

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