Saul Kent is a

life extension Life extension is the concept of extending the human life expectancy, lifespan, either modestly through improvements in medicine or dramatically by increasing the maximum lifespan beyond its generally-settled oldest people, limit of 125 years. S ...

activist, and co-founder of the

Life Extension Foundation The Biomedical Research & Longevity Society, formerly the Life Extension Foundation (LEF), is a company founded in 1980 to extend the healthy human lifespan by discovering methods to control aging and eradicate disease. Along with the Life Extens ...

, a

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vendor and promoter of anti-aging research. He is also a pioneer in the practice of

cryonics Cryonics (from el, κρύος ''kryos'' meaning 'cold') is the low-temperature freezing (usually at ) and storage of human remains, with the speculative hope that resurrection may be possible in the future. Cryonics is regarded with skepticis ...

, and was a board member of the cryonics organization

Alcor Life Extension Foundation The Alcor Life Extension Foundation, most often referred to as Alcor, is an American nonprofit, federally tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization based in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States. Alcor advocates for, researches, and performs cryonics, the ...

Career

Cryonics

Kent became a cryonics

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while a college student, upon hearing Robert Ettinger on a radio show appearance and subsequently reading Ettinger's book ''The Prospect of Immortality'' shortly after it was published in 1964.

Cryopreservation of mother

In 1988, Saul Kent made national headlines, because he brought his mother, Dora Kent, to the

, a California cryopreservation facility, where she died and her head was cryopreserved. The authorities were unable to locate her head for autopsy.

Life Extension Foundation

In 1977 he established the ''Florida Cryonics Association'' as a public charity with the stated purpose of promoting cryobiology research. In 1980, Kent started the

along with

William Faloon William “Bill” Faloon (born 1954) is an author, life extensionist, and co-founder of the Life Extension Foundation, the Church of Perpetual Life, and the FDA Holocaust Museum. Early life Faloon was born to a Presbyterian family and at age 8, ...

, a membership organization that claims to inform people about the latest advances in the

sciences, sell

s, and fund life extension research by offering grants to scientists in universities and by supporting startup

biotech Biotechnology is the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services. The term ''biotechnology'' was first used b ...

companies.

Timeship

Kent and Faloon are involved in a project called Timeship, which involves building a facility designed by an architect Stephen Valentine (starting from 1997) to house companies conducting research in the

and reanimation sciences and provide long-term care for cryopreserved humans. The Timeship Project, when built, will be located at the Stasis Foundation Biotechnology Research Park, in

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, on a 646 acre property formerly known as the Bildarth Estate.

References

External links

Alcor's Dora Kent Crisis and Legal Aftermath
(source documents)

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