Steven Mandell

Steven J. Mandell (legal death on July 28, 1968) was the first person cryopreserved by the Cryonics Society of New York. A student of aeronautical engineering at New York University, he was 24 years old when he legally died of enteritis and adrenal failure at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan.

His cryocapsule was eventually removed by his mother, who wanted to pay lower rates, and sent to Robert Nelson. Mandell thawed out in the Chatsworth incident.