Aging bypassed him, as if he was "mothballed". When others caught cold, Ramirez never got sick. He spoke briefly about the incredible adventure in the sky and the consequences: “As soon as I got out of air with the climb, I passed out. I didn't even have time to get scared. It all happened too quickly. I am much healthier now than in my youth. Here are just insomnia … I sleep fully twice a week, no more."
Hypothermia of the human body is fraught with illness at best. At worst, death. However, this is not always the case. Amazing things have happened and do happen that amaze doctors, when adults or children, having fallen into extraordinary circumstances and turning almost into ice, not only come back to life, but do not even resort to medical help.
What does it mean? What are the patterns that trigger the most powerful defense mechanisms?
There was no unambiguous, even approximate answer. There are only hypotheses. According to one of them, shock, which blocks the brain impulses responsible for the course of biochemical processes, helps not to die in conditions of guaranteed death. As a result, they seem to go out for a while. They are awakened by gradual warming with mild heat. However, much, if not all, depends on the characteristics of each individual organism, its uniqueness.
Russian scientist Maksim Illarionovich Kislov, back in 1930, studying the stress conditions of the naval sailors of the Northern Fleet, who constantly worked in a low-temperature environment, under conditions of risk, came to a paradoxical conclusion. The deep cold can take more than getting used to. It can be used for the benefit of rejuvenation, hardening, a significant extension of mental, physical, emotional activity. Moreover, Kislov insisted that "a skillfully set freezing will surely open the doors leading to immortality for future generations." Not so unfounded a statement, about which - later. As the saying goes, "for seed" we will give a number of sensational facts, but almost forgotten.
On July 3, 1969, Armando Soccarras Ramirez, a twenty-three-year-old worker at Havana airport, decided to take a ride on the landing gear of a Spanish airline jetliner taking off in order to impress the girls-washers. Dressed in a light robe, he could not jump off, because the sleeve was clamped by some element of the mechanism. The crew did not know anything about the man pressed against the chassis. They have been removed. The flight took place at an altitude of eight thousand meters at a temperature of minus 41 degrees Celsius. It lasted several hours.
After landing in Madrid, Ramirez, covered with a thin crust of ice frozen to the rack, was removed from the chassis. After conducting formal investigative measures, they were sent straight to the morgue.
Three days later, the deceased, who turned out to be imaginary, woke up and began to demand warm clothes and alcohol to keep warm. The guy was immediately taken to a military hospital.
No mental or physiological pathologies were identified. Ramirez did not even have to convince that he is healthier than all the healthy put together. The guy flew to Cuba, having admired the beauty of the capital of Spain, which he could not have dreamed of before. Fifteen years later, the Freedom Island media reported the fate of the "involuntarily frozen air passenger." He worked at the airport and became a technician.
Aging bypassed him, as if he was "mothballed". When others caught cold, Ramirez never got sick. He spoke briefly about the incredible adventure in the sky and the consequences: “As soon as I got out of air with the climb, I passed out. I didn't even have time to get scared. It all happened too quickly. I am much healthier now than in my youth. Here are just insomnia … I sleep fully twice a week, no more."
A truly incomprehensible incident occurred in January 1939 in Russia, in the city of Kiselevsk, Kemerovo region. Eight years later, paramedic Nikolai Mikhailovich Khokhlov recalled: “The village of Afonino is now within the city limits. To be honest, on the day of the distribution of parcels, the miners have a holiday, which is not a holiday without an intoxicating one. They sit at each other's house, if there is no shift in the morning, late. Frosts in Western Siberia are fierce. For a drunk person, a night road is deadly. Sometimes they freeze in a snowdrift.
I remember a man - Anikin Egor. Healthy, hero. Frozen for a fun business. When he was taken to the VILI point in a droshky, he was covered with a thick crust of ice. Without a sheepskin coat. In one shirt. There were no documents with him. A police investigator arrived. It was necessary to issue a death certificate. And for this it was required to identify the frozen one. While the court and the case, they assigned the deceased to the cold part of the hut, the one where the paramedic station was located. The news of the frozen miner spread throughout the area.
The day passed - no one showed up to identify. Another day - again there is no one. Four days have passed. To no avail. I went to the challenge. I return, our orderly and watchman, old man Ivan Khvorost, is running, shouting that someone is singing loudly in the barn. What kind of opportunity? I run to the barn. I turn on the light. And our deceased, on the floor where he was assigned, sits, sways and howls. Transferred it to warmth. I did not find any traces of frostbite or skin necrosis. Body temperature is normal. The pulse is perfect, good filling. Blood pressure is for envy. The psyche is only damaged. Finally we arrived from the mine. Recognized it. The man was transported to the regional center, to a psychiatric hospital. Apparently, they considered it necessary to transport them to Moscow, where, as far as I know, the luminaries of medicine were closely engaged in it. I know that Egor Anikin died in 1944 from a stroke. His psyche never returned to normal. The cold killed the brain."
But the miracles that deep cold can do seem to have no limits and no set rules, as evidenced by a note published on May 2, 1988 in an Indian weekly in Delhi. Literally, this publication looks like this: “A daring attack was made on the truck of 30-year-old Raja Shakkar delivering seafood delicacies by unidentified persons. A large sum of money was stolen.
The driver himself was stunned, hitting the crown of the head with a stick, and then buried in dry ice that filled the van. When the police found Mr. Shakkar at least six hours later, he was indistinguishable from the frozen fish he was transporting. Doctors, we must pay tribute to their intuition, tried to resuscitate the victim by placing him in a bath with warm water, the temperature of which was raised extremely slowly, degree by degree. The poor man soon began to show signs of life, although he was in a coma.
The state of oblivion lasted six hours. Mr. Shakkar is now fully adequate to what is happening around him, recognizes his relatives. He cannot remember the details of the events fatal to him. He only remembers that there was a sharp pain in the back of his head and cold, replaced by heat, when his body came into contact with ice. After which, according to him, he began to rapidly fall into the bottomless dark abyss. Doctors hope that a long stay in a frozen state will not adversely affect the patient's health, he will be able to return to work. Gray hair remained in memory of the incident. Before that, Mr. Shakkar did not have a single gray hair. As you can see, although it is very rare, but deep involuntary freezing of the human body does not always end in death.
The same Kislov drew attention to "the mysterious relationship between hypothermia and death, when death, for some reason retreating, gives the illusion of eternal youth and the expectation of immortality." As an argument in favor of this conclusion, Maxim Illarionovich cites the case of a resident of Poltava, Taras Pykhanov, whom he knew personally and for many years he took care of as a doctor. Pykhanov, being a nine-year-old tomboy, fell through the ice of the mill dam, from where he was taken out an hour later. Didn't die. The slightest cold after this incident caused pneumonia.
In 1922, when he was 50, he looked like he was twenty. Superstitious neighbors avoided him, believing that at the bottom of the pond he entered into an agreement with the water one, who not only did not let him suffocate, but promised that Pykhanov would live until he got tired of life. He was tired of her, having celebrated the centenary, until the last day conscientiously working as a typographic typesetter. His death was sudden and easy. I fell asleep and did not wake up.
Death did not mark Pykhanov with the stamp of aging. As he was an “eternal youth,” he remained so. It turns out that the cold, if it does not give immortality, somehow preserves life. In any case, the famous modern biologist Leon Rey has no doubt that scientists in the future will surely select the optimal combinations of pre-freezing temperatures, compositions of preserving liquids, methods of tissue dehydration in order to suspend vital activity for an arbitrarily long period of time with subsequent awakening.
Think about it! Seeds of cereals, at a temperature of 10-20 degrees Celsius, retain their usefulness for a year or two, subjected to conservation at a temperature of minus 270 degrees Celsius, theoretically they can germinate after 71 trillion 300 billion years! The laws of life are universal. Make the final conclusions yourself.
Alexander DMITRIEV
"UFO" No. 43