Life Extension Society
The Life Extension Society (LES) with its network of coordinators was the first cryonics organization in the world. It was founded by Evan Cooper in 1964 to promote cryonic suspension of people, and became the seed tree for cryonics societies throughout the US where local cryonics advocates would meet as a result of contact through the LES mailing list.[1][2] The original LES ceased existence near the end of the 1960s, but an organization with the same name and similar objectives was incorporated in Maryland in 1992.[3]
History
In 1962, Cooper privately published a manuscript named Immortality: Physically, Scientifically, Now under his pseudonym, Nathan Duhring. The book is considered by Michael Darwin "a modest, almost apologetic one; the ideas it contains are the stuff of genius and the fabric of change, in it, he advocated that men need not be born only to die and that if they were frozen at or near the time of death they might yet have a chance to live again, whole and complete, forever."
See also
References
- ISBN 9781440803437.
- ISBN 9781440857140.
- ^ "Life Extension Society". A Not-for-Profit Maryland Corporation, Incorporated 1992. keithlynch.net. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
- ^ Ev Cooper,Cryonics, March 1983, accessed 13 June 2013
- ^ Michael Perry,"Unity and Disunity in Cryonics", Cryonics, Volume 13(8) Issue 145, pg 5, August 1992, accessed 13 June 2013
External links
- Evan Cooper, Immortality: Physically, Scientifically, Now
- Robert Ettinger, The Prospect of Immortality