John Monts

John Monts (legal death on October 31, 2012) is an American cryonics patient who was robbed shortly before his legal death. A retired chiropractor from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he was cryopreserved by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation when he was 68.

Cryopreservation
Apparently Monts traveled from his home in North Carolina for dental work in his previous neighborhood in South Carolina. Sometime on the evening of October 31, 2012, he was robbed. Sometime the following morning, he was found clinically dead in his hotel room. Time of death was estimated as around 11 pm by the pathologist. The suspicious circumstances made this a coroner's case.

The first Alcor knew of any of this was at 2:08 pm on November 1. Alcor pressed to limit the autopsy. With Alcor's legal input, the coroner agreed to conduct a toxicology panel and external head examination while refraining from opening the skull and sectioning the brain. Monts was then released to Alcor on the condition that they conduct a CT scan of his brain and send the results to the coroner.

Aaron Drake flew out to Charleston on November 4 to collect Monts, who was now at dry ice temperature, buying Alcor time. Drake conducted the neuroseparation and then, that evening, topped off the neuro shipper box with dry ice ready for shipment to Alcor the following morning. A medical emergency delayed the flight's arrival, as it was diverted to El Paso. The patient arrived in Phoenix on November 7 and reached Alcor at 6:30 am. Cooldown to liquid nitrogen temperature began shortly after. He is Alcor's 113th patient, and his Alcor identifier is A-1645.