CI patient #219 was an 88 year old female from Connecticut. The patient was a CI member at the time of her death. 

The patient died in a nursing home under hospice care at approximately 8 pm on January 15, 2022. The nursing home staff cooled the patient by applying ice packs and called the funeral home that was prepared to help.  The funeral home removed the patient from the nursing home and took her to the funeral home where she was put in refrigeration and more ice was added.  The next day arrangements were made to drive the patient to CI, but it took much longer than normal because of a snow storm.

Cryonics Institute Case Report for Patient Number 218

CI patient #218 was a 42 year old male from Michigan. The patient was a CI member at the time of his death. 

The patient died at a local hospital at approximately 7:30 pm on January 15th, 2022. The hospital called a funeral director to pick up the patient and the funeral director held him in ice at his funeral home until the following day.  CI was not aware that the patient was hospitalized and nobody made CI aware that a member had died until about 15 hours after the patient had died.  The funeral director was instructed to bring the patient to the CI facility.  The patient arrived at the CI facility at 2:30pm on January 16th.