Saul Kent
{{Short description|American life extension activist (1939–2023)}}
Saul Kent (July 18, 1939 – {{circa}} May 26, 2023){{cite web |url=https://www.officialusa.com/names/Saul-Kent/ |title=Saul Kent |author= |date= |website= |publisher= |access-date=June 9, 2023 |quote=}}{{cite web |url=https://www.alcor.org/complete-list-of-non-confidential-cryopreserved-alcor-patients/ |title=Complete List of Non-Confidential Cryopreserved Alcor Patients |author= |date= |website= |publisher= |access-date=June 9, 2023 |quote=}} was a life extension activist, and co-founder of the Life Extension Foundation, a dietary supplement vendor and promoter of anti-aging research. He was also a pioneer in the practice of cryonics, and was a board member of the cryonics organization Alcor Life Extension Foundation.
Career
=Cryonics=
Kent became a cryonics activist 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.{{cite book|title= Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge|last= Regis|first= Ed|author-link= Ed Regis (author)|year= 1991|publisher= Westview Press|isbn= 0-201-56751-2|pages= [https://archive.org/details/greatmambochicke00regi/page/88 88–89]|url= https://archive.org/details/greatmambochicke00regi/page/88|url-access= registration}}
Kent was cryopreserved by Alcor in May 2023.
==Cryopreservation of mother==
In 1988, Saul Kent made national headlines, because he brought his mother, Dora Kent, to the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, a California cryopreservation facility, where she died and her head was cryopreserved. The authorities were unable to locate her head for autopsy.{{cite news | last = McGarry and Sahagun | first = T.W. and Louis | title = Officials Raid Frozen-Body Lab Again | work = Los Angeles Times | date = 13 January 1988 | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-01-13-mn-23823-story.html | access-date = 2015-06-07 }}{{cite book | last = Perry | first = R | title = Forever for all : moral philosophy, cryonics, and the scientific prospects for immortality | publisher = Universal Publishers | location = United States | year = 2000 | isbn = 978-1581127249
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jCebCgAAQBAJ&q=Saul+Kent+first+person&pg=PA42 |access-date=August 6, 2018}}
=Life Extension Foundation=
In 1977 he established the Florida Cryonics Association as a public charity with the stated purpose of promoting cryobiology research.{{Cite web|url=http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/bill-faloon-and-saul-kent-major-figures-in-cryonics-movement-start-a-church-in-hollywood-6969096|title = Bill Faloon and Saul Kent, Major Figures in Cryonics Movement, Start a Church in Hollywood}}
In 1980, Kent started the Life Extension Foundation along with William Faloon, a membership organization that claims to inform people about the latest advances in the life extension sciences, sell dietary supplements, and fund life extension research by offering grants to scientists in universities and by supporting startup biotech companies.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/g2/story/0,3604,1129295,00.html|title=Stephen Valentine talks about the battle to conquer death |work=The Guardian|access-date=2008-02-07|last=Rose|first= Steve| location=London | date=2004-01-23}}
=Timeship=
Kent and Faloon were 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 life extension 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 Comfort, Texas, on a 646-acre property formerly known as the Bildarth Estate.{{Cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/6c272954-1ebf-11e7-b7d3-163f5a7f229c|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221211181216/https://www.ft.com/content/6c272954-1ebf-11e7-b7d3-163f5a7f229c|archive-date=2022-12-11|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|title=The 'fortress' designed to help people live forever|newspaper=Financial Times|date=20 April 2017|last1=Davison|first1=Nicola|access-date=2018-03-10}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.cryonicslegal.org/dorakent/DoraKent.html Alcor's Dora Kent Crisis and Legal Aftermath] (source documents)
- [http://www.alcor.org/AboutAlcor/meetdirectors.html#kent Profile] at Alcor
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{{Cryonics}}
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Category:American chief executives
Category:Cryonically preserved people