The Cryonics Society: A Study of Variant Behavior Among the Immortalists

"The Cryonics Society: A Study of Variant Behavior Among the Immortalists" is a 1976 dissertation by Ellen Besse Rievman. It was written for the degree of Doctor of Education in the Faculty of the College of Education of Florida Atlantic University. The dissertation has 200 pages.

About the author
Rievman was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States on July 30, 1944. She graduated from South High School, Salt Lake City, and the University of Utah, with a B.S. degree in sociology in 1968. She joined the National Teacher Corps Program in Washington, D. C. Through this program she was sent to Miami, Florida to teach disadvantaged children while earning the M.Ed. from the University of Miami in 1970. She married Steven Paul Rievman in 1969.

In 1970 she was admitted to the Graduate School of Florida Atlantic University. Her teaching fields were sociology and guided studies. She was granted the degree of Doctor of Education in March 1976.

She was employed as a teacher of gifted high school students in Jupiter, Florida.