DAILY STAR
A Chinese philosopher has had his brain frozen with a strict final wish to only thaw it ‘after 500 years’.
Li Zehou, a respected scholar of Chinese history and culture, passed away in Colorado, US, in November 2021 at the age of 91. Following his death, an unusual request was revealed by his friend Ma Qunlin, who had also edited several of his books.
According to Ma, Li’s family contacted a cryonics company on the day he died, meaning his brain has been kept in cold storage for over two years. The academic had already publicly shared his dying wishes in a 2010 interview with a Chinese publication.
Just before his 80th birthday, he said: “I won’t have an epitaph. But I will leave my brain frozen. Take it out after 300 or 500 years.”
