I don't know how to feel about this article I
found, but I can't not share it. So we're just
gonna go with it and you're gonna have to trust
I don't steer you wrong with articles. You know
what? It was hard for me to start trusting for
some reason. I don't know why, but now I've come
to trust. Except for that last one you did. Oh
man, that one was rough. That was a rough one.
But the trust is still there now. This one is
about the implications of cryogenically freezing
people to bring them back. back to life at some
time in the future. You're really bringing us
a lot of content that is, we must judge the morality
of things. I feel like that's where this is going.
Continue. I don't think it's a heavy topic. It's
a weirdly fun one. I haven't read the article.
I have merely read the headline and saw it was
on, not the onion. So I had to read it to you
all. It comes from a website called dexerto,
d -e -x -e -r -t -o dot com, posted on November
17th, 2025, written by Virginia Glaze. Article
title, man who cryogenically froze his wife finds
new love years later. I'm not really sure what
to make of this title, but I guess we have to
continue listening. A man who cryogenically froze
his wife in hopes of curing her lung cancer has
found a new partner years later. It's a story
that feels straight out of a sci -fi novel or
a Batman movie with Mr. Freeze. In 2017, 57 -year
-old Gui Junmin made the decision to cryogenically
freeze his wife's body with the hope that in
the future she could be potentially revived and
treated when a cure for her lung cancer had been
found. His wife, Zhang Wenlian, famously became
China's first ever cryopreserved person. To this
day, her body is still being stored at minus
196 degrees Celsius in a unit labeled container
in the Shandong Yin -Feng Life Science Research
Institute. The institute, which was founded in
2015, teamed up with Shandong University Chiru
Hospital to start an experimental cryopreservation
program for humans, offering to freeze early
volunteers for free. When Wen Lian was diagnosed
with terminal lung cancer in April of 2017, Jun
Min made the decision to have her preserved as
part of the program. Quote, when she left, my
world collapsed, I didn't know what to do, end
quote, he told news outlets, describing himself
as a dreamer and fantasist. Shandong Yinfeng
or Science Research Institute claims that Wenlian
is in quote stable unquote condition saying her
cellular structure has not undergone any abnormal
fluctuations however she has been clinically
declared quote unquote dead. While Junmin's heart
-wrenching decision to preserve his wife in hopes
of a future cure was equal parts shocking and
saddening he's now being met with criticism for
refusing to wait for her resurrection. In November
of 2025, Chinese news outlets discovered that
Junmin had started dating again. Junmin himself
confirmed that he has been living with his new
girlfriend since 2020. He explained that he'd
stayed single for two years but suffered from
health complications that left him immobile without
any help. Oh that's sad. without any help at
home. Mail Business Newspaper states that Junmin
suffered from a severe gout attack that caused
him to collapse. He was discovered two days later
after relatives broke down his door out of concern.
Quote, If something really happens when you're
alone, there's nothing that person can do. No
one can know even if they die at home, end quote
Junmin said. He later met his current girlfriend,
Wang Chun Sha, through an acquaintance describing
her personality as kind and thoughtful like his
late wife. Despite entering into a relationship
with Chun Sha, Zhou Min said he remains committed
to his wife. Quote, she hasn't entered my mind
yet. End quote. He said of his girlfriend, quote,
I have a responsibility for her, but it's a complicated
matter. She can never replace my wife. I can't
just forget the past, but I still have to live
my life. There should be an end quote there.
The situation has sparked debate on Chinese social
media platforms with one user writing, quote,
Now he's holding one woman in his arms while
hoping to reunite with another in 30 years. What
is this emotional polygamy? Question mark, end
quote. Quote, if that is the case, why start
a new relationship? If you do, why not treat
your new partner with genuine care? This kind
of so -called devotion is not noble, it's selfish,
end quote, another remarked. This isn't the first
strange case of separation to go viral. In October,
a Turkish man agreed to pay his ex -wife thousands
of dollars in cat support as part of the terms
of his divorce. And that's where the article
ends. We could probably have left that last part.
What? What a weird place to end. I just I find
that a fascinating implication of freezing a
body to like bring it back to life in the future
that like you kind of have to assume that life
stays the same for everybody involved in that
situation until they find a cure or everybody
dies in the meantime. and you come back hundreds
of years later. I don't think that you can hold
somebody like the, this is China right? Yeah.
Like the media, the Chinese media is trying to
do in the circumstance to a decision that was
made when they were grieving about how are they
ever going to move on obviously. yeah and i'm
also very curious about the whole process of
like putting somebody cryogenic freezing it almost
seemed like she was still alive when they put
her under but also i doubt it i couldn't quite
understand how they were describing it i know
but like it did say she was clinically dead but
you would think to be brought back if you were
to be cryogenically frozen that you would have
to be frozen alive i mean i guess it depends
on where you think technology is going to be
at in the future where it could resuscitate the
body it would have to be at zombie level i would
think anyhow yeah it's just like one of those
weird implications of the decisions you make
30 years down the line don't really match up
with that yeah here's my other question what
would they prefer him do like do you think he's
paying rent for her this is like a black mirror
episode by the way and if he were to move on
are they expecting that he would be like you
know just un -thar and What's barrier because
now I move it like what what are they expecting
here the article weirdly almost makes him like
a celebrity or a star in China, from how they
described it, but also he lived with this woman
for five years before they kind of like noticed
he was dating someone. It must have been a slow
news day and they're just like, follow up on
this guy, and they're like, no way, you're never
gonna guess. Go look at all the cryogenic people's
family members, see what they're up to. Yeah,
you're never gonna guess, he's been living with
a woman for five years now. I thought it was
a fun article. You can take those implications
with you, I guess, for the rest of your listening
to this podcast episode has frozen a family member
or might be really awkward. A Bigfoot maybe though.
I don't think it's cryogenically frozen if they're
listening to this podcast episode. I think it's
a deep freeze. It's definitely a deep freeze.
cryogenic chamber written in short B on it. Written
wrong. Written wrong on it. Yeah, it's spelled
totally wrong. Anyhow, you guys got 48 hours.
Maybe look into getting that Bigfoot properly
stored for long -term care. So we could bring
it back. Anyhow, bye.