X-Message-Number: 1056 Subject: CRYONICS Nomenclature: cryonicist Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 16:11:19 -0400 From: What exactly does "cryonicist" mean? It rhymes with "scientist". If we use it to mean "anyone who has signed up with a cryonics organization", the collision with "scientist" in my mind conjures up images of some television salesman paying lots of money to a cryonics club for the priveledge of putting on a lab coat and playing with corpses and liquid nitrogen with his friends. (Gee, I hope there aren't any thin-skinned televesion salesmen reading this. I had to pick some non-scientific occupation, and that's the first thing that came to mind.) Maybe we should reserve the term "cryonicist" for people who have received relevant training of some kind. I've decided to remove the term from the FAQ list. Any comments? Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1056