Bel

Bel (legal death on December 22/23, 1965) was a dog that was cryopreserved in December 1965. She was a healthy, black Labrador retriever-mix. On December 22 or 23, 1965, she was anesthetized, chemically perfused with dimethyl sulfoxide, and frozen by the Life Extension Society president Evan Cooper and a local veterinarian.

On January 1, 1966, during the third LES conference, Ed Hope placed Bel from a temporary fiberboard box to a new cryocapsule, manufactured by Hope's Cryo-Care Equipment Corporation.

As of April 1966, Bel was being taken care of in the garage of an LES member who filled the container with dry ice at least once each week. It is not clear what eventually happened to Bel.