From: Michael Sarno <msarno@p...>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:21:35 -0400
Subject: [OT] Futurist FM-2030 is stored in liquid nitrogen after death at 69
WIRE:07/11/2000 07:41:00 ET
Futurist FM-2030 is stored in liquid nitrogen after
death at 69
NEW YORK (AP) _ A futurist who
changed his given name to FM-2030,
lectured about people made wholly from synthetic parts and arranged to have
his body frozen with the hope of being revived in the future, has died at age
69.
His body was flown to Arizona for storage in a vat of liquid nitrogen. It will
be thawed,
according to FM-2030"s plan, when doctors have a cure
for pancreatic cancer, which was the cause of his death Saturday.
FM-2030, a teacher, author and corporate consultant
who lived in Miami, was launched _ his word for born _
in 1930. He legally changed his name from F.M.
Esfandiary in the mid-1970s.
He imagined a future of limitless energy and human immortality. In 1977, he
spoke about the correction of
genetic flaws and fertilization and gestation outside the body. In 1980, he
wrote about teleconferencing, telemedicine and teleshopping.
"I am a 21st-century person who was accidentally born
into the 20th," he once said.
He was launched in Belgium to an Iranian diplomat and lived in 17 countries by
the time he was 11, fostering his belief that he was a global citizen.
His books about the future include "Optimism One," "Telespheres" and "Are You
Transhuman?" He was revising his "Countdown to Immortality" when he became
sick.
His body is in a thermos tank at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in
Scottsdale, Ariz. The foundation, in a news release, said no frozen mammal has
been successfully thawed.
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