Long overdue, Depressed Metabolism has made available online Ev Cooper's "Immortality: Physically, Scientifically, Now" (1962), the first major treatise on what would later become known as cryonics. Ev's book not only discusses the use of cold to preserve patients in the hope of future resuscitation, a substantial part of his manuscript is devoted to reviewing different scientific means to achieve "physical immortality". The author also anticipates a lot of other "futurist" topics like synthetic biology, transhumanism, mind uploading and the singularity:
http://www.depressed...blished-online/
