X-Message-Number: 25791
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 07:15:24 -0500
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: CryoNet #25782 - #25783

And for David Pascal and others who wonder 
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And for David Pascal and others wondering why so few accept cryonics:

I noticed an interesting fact when I looked at two dictionaries 
from different companies which I happen to own. Both dictionaries
gave a definition of "cryonics" (and "cryonicist"), generally
something to the effect of "someone who believes that people 
should be frozen after death in the hope that future technology
can revive them". 

However when I looked up "immortalism" neither dictionary had
a definition. So someone unfamiliar with us and our ideas who
looks us up in the dictionary will find that we wish to be
revived after death. And the natural question is: why on Earth
would they want THAT. They would be old and falling apart due
to age in any case, so that they could only get a brief taste
of the future before they died once me. What a boofheaded 
idea!

This makes me want to look at every dictionary I can get
my hands on, a library project which I may take up when I'm
done with PERIASTRON and another Update for the GUIDE. It
does not look very good.

         Best wishes and long long life,

            Thomas Donaldson

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