Редактирование: Evan Cooper (раздел)

[[File:Evan Cooper.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Evan Cooper]]
'''Evan "Ev" Cooper''' (April 1926 – likely October 1982)<ref name="Cryonics 2023">[https://www.alcor.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-2023-02.pdf Evan Cooper: An Untold Story]. [[R. Michael Perry]]. ''[[Cryonics (magazine)|Cryonics]]'' 2023 #2 (page 23)</ref><ref name="Cryonics 1983">[https://www.alcor.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-1983-03.txt (Cooper's obituary)]. ''[[Cryonics (magazine)|Cryonics]]''. March 1983</ref> 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.<ref name="Cryonics 2023" /> 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.<ref name="Cryonics 1992">[https://www.alcor.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-1992-08.txt For The Record: Unity and Disunity in Cryonics]. [[R. Michael Perry|Michael Perry]]. ''[[Cryonics (magazine)|Cryonics]]''. August 1992</ref>

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".<ref name="Cryonics 1992" />

Cooper ended his involvement in the cryonics and [[life extension]] movement in 1969.<ref name="Cryonics 1983" /> 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".<ref name="Cryonics 1983" /> For the last years of his life, Cooper was a sailor. He was lost in the Atlantic Ocean in October 1982.<ref name="Cryonics 2023" />