A Chinese man cryogenically froze his 49-year-old wife after she died from lung cancer in 2017. Junmin’s wife, Zhan Wenlian, became China’s first cryogenically preserved person, with Junmin signing a 30-year agreement with the Shandong Yinfeng Life Science Research Institute to keep her on ice. Junmin lived by himself for two years after his wife’s body was frozen, but started dating once again in 2020. “She can never replace my wife,” he told Southern Weekly. “His so-called love for Zhan is more like an obsession with playing the role of the ‘grieving husband’.