Evan Cooper
Evan "Ev" Cooper (April 1926 – likely October 1982)[1][2] was one of the first advocates of cryonics. He was born in Butte, Montana, United States, under the birthname of Stanley Edward McBarron, which he later discarded.[1] In 1962, he privately published Immortality: Physically, Scientifically, Now, under the pseudonym Nathan Duhring, advocating what he called a "freezing program". In December 1963, he founded the Life Extension Society, the first cryonics organization in the world.[3]
In 1962, shortly after Cooper's book was published, Robert Ettinger privately published his book The Prospect of Immortality that independently also suggested the idea of cryonics. While Ettinger's book received more publicity, the cryonics historian R. Michael Perry has written that "Evan Cooper deserves the principal credit for forming an organized cryonics movement".[3]
Cooper ended his involvement in the cryonics and life extension movement in 1969.[2] According to his former wife, Mildred, he "turned away from cryonics because of overload, burn-out, and a general sense that it was not going to be a viable option in his lifetime".[2] For the last years of his life, Cooper was a sailor. He was lost in the Atlantic Ocean in October 1982.[1]
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- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 Evan Cooper: An Untold Story. R. Michael Perry. Cryonics 2023 #2 (page 23)
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 (Cooper's obituary). Cryonics. March 1983
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 For The Record: Unity and Disunity in Cryonics. Michael Perry. Cryonics. August 1992