15 Facts About FM-2030

FM-2030 travelled widely as a child, having lived in 17 countries including Iran, India, and Afghanistan, by age 11.

FM-2030 represented Iran as a basketball player and wrestler at the 1948 Olympic Games in London.

FM-2030 attended primary school in Iran and England and completed his secondary education at Colleges Des Freres, a Jesuit school in Jerusalem.

FM-2030 then started his college education at the University of California, Berkeley, but later transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles, where he graduated in 1952.

FM-2030 argued that the nuclear family structure and the idea of a city would disappear, being replaced by modular social communities he called mobilia, powered by communitarianism, which would persist and then disappear.

FM-2030 believed that synthetic body parts would one day make life expectancy irrelevant; shortly before his death from pancreatic cancer, he described the pancreas as "a stupid, dumb, wretched organ".

FM-2030 was a lifelong vegetarian and said he would not eat anything that had a mother.

FM-2030 famously refused to answer any questions about his nationality, age and upbringing, claiming that such questions were irrelevant and that he was a "global person".

FM-2030 taught at The New School, University of California, Los Angeles, and Florida International University.

FM-2030 worked as a corporate consultant for Lockheed and J C Penney.

FM-2030 had been in a non-exclusive "friendship" with Flora Schnall, a lawyer and fellow Harvard Law Class of 1959 graduate, from the 1960s until his death.

FM-2030 resided in Westwood, Los Angeles, as well as Miami.

FM-2030 died on July 8,2000, from pancreatic cancer at a friend's apartment in Manhattan.

FM-2030 was placed in cryonic suspension at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona, where his body remains today.

FM-2030 did not yet have remote standby arrangements, so no Alcor team member was present at his death, but FM-2030 was the first person to be vitrified, rather than simply frozen as previous cryonics patients had been.