Japan Today: Missing man's dad defrosts after 13 years

Published by Colin on 19th July 2001.

A Japanese man has kept his father’s corpse in a large freezer at home for the past 13 years in the hope it might someday be possible to bring him back to life. His DIY cryogenics experiment failed when a power cut caused decaying odours to spread, alerting the neighbours who then called the police.