Comment Re:Kinda pointless due to cell damage (Score 1) 87
Not exactly the same thing, and I'll warn you that if you're squeamish, don't keep reading:
In preclinical pharmaceutical animal testing, there is a chemical fixation/preservation technique known as perfusion. There are a couple of ways of doing it. Common way: a mouse is put under a deep, deep, plane of anesthesia and held there. The chest is opened. A catheter of aldehyde fixative is introduced into one of the aorta's and the one of the major ventricles cut. The heart, still pumping away, pumps the fixative around the entire body before it,too, becomes chemically fixed. The animal is held under the plane of anesthesia the entire time and does not suffer. With the heart stopped beforehand there are ways to do this artificially (syringe pumps, gravity perfusion), but they vary in effectiveness.
Point being: you could do this with a human and some kind of biocompatable antifreeze (glycerine?) if you had the time to plan, the money, and....eh, the will?