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The freezing is carried out by affiliates of the newly-formed Cryonics Society of California: {{W|Robert Prehoda}}, author and cryobiological researcher; Dante Brunol, physician and biophysicist; and Robert Nelson, President of the Society. Also assisting is Bedford's physician, Renault Able.
6 days later, relatives would move Bedford to the Cryo-Care facility in Phoenix. Later, his son would store him, and finally, on September 22, 1987, Bedford would be moved to Alcor.<ref name="BedfordSuspension"/><ref name="AlcorCase">{{Cite web|url=https://alcor.org/cases.html|title=Alcor Cases|website=alcor.org|access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/12/magazine/still-frozen-after-all-these-years.html|title=Still Frozen After All These Years|date=1997-01-12|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-02-15|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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| 1968 || cryonics || organization || status || Cryo-Care Equipment Corporation || Ed Hope closes Cryo-Care Equipment Corporation after seeing it wouldn't turn a profit. The remaining patients are turned over to other organizations or to relatives.<ref name="SuspensionFailures">{{Cite web|url=https://www.alcor.org/Library/html/suspensionfailures.html|title=Suspension Failures - Lessons from the Early Days|website=www.alcor.org|access-date=2019-01-21}}</ref>
The rest of the body would be given to a coroner. The coroner's office wouldn't understand that circulation would be artificially restarted after legal death, and that barbiturate would be given to slow down the brain metabolism. Seeing the distributed barbiturate throughout the body, they would change the cause of death from natural causes to homicide.
In January 1988, Alcor would be raided by coroner's deputies, a SWAT team, and UCLA police. The Alcor staff would be taken to the police station in handcuffs and the Alcor facility would be ransacked, with computers and records being seized. The coroner's office would want to seize {{W|Dora Kent}}'s head for autopsy, but the head would be removed from the Alcor facility and taken to a location that would never be disclosed. Alcor would later sue for false arrest and for illegal seizures, and would win both cases.<ref name="BenBestCryonicsHistory"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://alcor.org/Library/html/DoraKentCase.html|title=The Dora Kent Case|website=alcor.org|access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref>
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| 1988 || cryonics || social || email list || Cryonet || The [http://www.cryonet.org/ Cryonet ] email list starts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=1|title=administrivia|website=www.cryonet.org|access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref>
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| 1988 || cryonics || legal || cryopreservation || Dick Clair || Alcor member Dick Clair{{snd}}who is dying of AIDS{{snd}}sues for, and ultimately wins for everyone, the right to be cryopreserved in the State of California.<ref name="BenBestCryonicsHistory"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alcor.org/Library/html/CaliforniaAppellateCourtDecison.html|title=California Appellate Court Decision on Legality of Cryonics|website=www.alcor.org|access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref>
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| 2010 || cryonics || organization || standby || {{W|Cryonics Institute}} || The Cryonics Institute starts offering, through {{W|Suspended Animation, Inc}}, standby and transport options.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cryonics.org/resources/suspended-animation-inc-standby-stabilization-and-transport-for-ci-members|title=Resources {{!}} Cryonics Institute|website=www.cryonics.org|access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref>
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| 2010 || cryonics || social || event || Annual Young Cryonicists Gathering || The first edition of the Annual Young Cryonicists Gathering, Teens & Twenties. This event is founded by the {{W|Life Extension Foundation}} in perpetuity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cryonics.org/news/2018-teens-and-twenties|title=News {{!}} Cryonics Institute|website=www.cryonics.org|access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref>
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| 2010-05 || cryobiology || technological development || cryoprotection || Wowk, et al. || Creation of first synthetic ice blockers and their application to organ and tissue preservation to radically increase the stability of vitrification solutions.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wowk|first=B.|last2=Leitl|first2=E.|last3=Rasch|first3=C. M.|last4=Mesbah-Karimi|first4=N.|last5=Harris|first5=S. B.|last6=Fahy|first6=G. M.|date=May 2000|title=Vitrification enhancement by synthetic ice blocking agents|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10860622|journal=Cryobiology|volume=40|issue=3|pages=228–236|doi=10.1006/cryo.2000.2243|issn=0011-2240|pmid=10860622}}</ref>
