Ben Best

Ben Best was President and CEO of the Cryonics Institute, the world's second largest cryonics organisation, for nine years (between 2003 and 2012). Best is a well-known activist in cryonics and life extension advocacy.(YouTube Video of German conference) He holds undergraduate degrees in pharmacy from the University of British Columbia, and physics and computing science (BSc), and finance (BBA) from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Best is also certified as a Professional Registered Parliamentarian by the National Association of Parliamentarians. He currently works for the Life Extension Foundation.

Cryonics activities

For most of the 1990s, Best was President of the Cryonics Society of Canada (CSC) and was Editor of Canadian Cryonics News (total circulation of about 60 copies) until the last issue was published in Spring of 2000. He is still a Director of CSC. Best also served as treasurer of the Toronto chapter of Mensa.

Along with many other cryonicists, in the mid-1990s Best left Alcor Life Extension Foundation to join CryoCare Foundation which had been formed by a small group of dissatisfied Alcor activists in late 1993. In March 1995, he became Secretary of CryoCare and in 1999 became Cryocare's President for a short time in an effort to prevent the termination of the organisation. When CryoCare terminated in the year 2000, mainly as a result of the discontinuation of service in 1999 by its cryopreservation provider (Biopreservation), he helped negotiate the transfer of CryoCare's two cryonics patients from its long-term patient care provider, CryoSpan, to Alcor.

Ben Best (actor)

Ben Best is an American screenwriter and actor. He is the co-creator and co-writer of the television show Eastbound & Down. He also co wrote the films The Foot Fist Way and Your Highness.

As an actor he appears in The Foot Fist Way as washed-up martial arts movie star Chuck "The Truck" Wallace. He also appears in Superbad, What Happens in Vegas, Observe and Report and Eastbound & Down.

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