William Faloon
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William "Bill" Faloon (born 1954)[1] is an author, life extensionist, and co-founder of the Life Extension Foundation, the Church of Perpetual Life, and the FDA Holocaust Museum.[2]
Faloon was born to a Presbyterian family and at age 8, was told by his mother that everyone eventually dies, an idea he refused to believe, sparking his interest in human immortality. At age 13, a local newspaper article about Robert Ettinger aroused his interest in the prospect of cryonics. After learning of Alcor Life Extension Foundation, at age 15, Faloon decided to take a life insurance policy out on himself, naming his mother as the beneficiary so that if he died, she could use those funds to cryogenically preserve him. Faloon pursued his higher education at the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science, completing a one-year mortuary science program, in hopes of being able to cryopreserve others. A few years later, around 1974, he moved to South Florida to assist in the setup of Neptune Society.[1]