Norman Hardy

Norman Hardy (February 8, 1933 – legal death October 30, 2018) was a software engineer in Silicon Valley who became the first person to undergo cryopreservation after an assisted suicide under the newly enacted California End of Life Option Act (EOLOA). He had been diagnosed with terminal metastatic prostate cancer that had spread to the bones and lungs. The Act was used to reduce the potential ischemic damage that can result from a prolonged dying process. He was neuropreserved by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, becoming Alcor's 164th patient, and his identifier is A-1990.