MEET BRENT FOX

I have known of the concept of "suspended animation" since I was first exposed to it when I was about six years old. The Sci-Fi films Planet of the Apes, and Gene Roddenberry’s Genesis II made the biggest impact on me concerning the subject.

I learned about cryonics around 1978, after reading an article in Future Life magazine, and then realized that cryonics is the closest thing to "suspended animation" that there is available with today’s technology.

I have a Cryonic Suspension contract in place with the Cryonics Institute. I know that there is no guarantee that cryonics will work, but I will take my chances with cryonics. It’s certainly better than the alternatives. Cryonic suspension provides me with the possibility of reaching advanced medical aid for when the time comes that I will need it. Should cryonics work, the rewards will be unimaginable. I’d like to see the world of three hundred years or more from now. It will be quite an adventure.

I believe the biggest hindrance to the success of cryonics will be social issues and not technology. Will society continue to allow cryonics? Will society permit the revival of those in suspension? Will the human species even survive to the point where technology can accomplish revival?

Although my wife is not a cryonicist, she is supportive of my decision. My best friend probably thinks that I have read and seen too much sci-fi.

I’ve not yet had the opportunity to visit CI, or Alcor. I’d certainly like to go up to Michigan to personally meet Bob Ettinger. I would also like to head west and take a vacation out at David Pizer’s Creekside Preserve. I’d love to see the future site of Ventureville. I think David has a wonderful idea that would benefit all cryonicists.

About twelve years ago, I found out that there was a fellow cryonicist who lived in a neighboring town just twenty five miles away. We chatted on the phone a few times, but our schedules didn’t sync before he moved out of state. The Internet is a fantastic tool. I’ve bandied some email with Dave Pizer, Mike Perry, Rudi Hoffman, and James Swayze. It’s been wonderful to be able to communicate with such brilliant people who share similar beliefs as your own. James and I have even started, perhaps the first, cryo-chess match.

I am forty years of age. I have three years of college. I have several years experience in the law enforcement field, and now work as an investigator with a criminal prosecutor’s office in Georgia.

In my spare time I enjoy reading science fiction. My favorite authors are Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, and Isaac Asimov. I also enjoy reading science fact, with emphasis on cosmology and quantum theory. I’m an amateur astronomer, who enjoys dragging the wife outside on cold winter nights to gaze at Jupiter or Saturn. I’m also a techno-computer geek who is trying to convince the wife that we really do need that ER2 home robot, or at least an Aibo.