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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 14:16:06 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: cryonics terminology


Here's my suggestion for a replacement for the term "suspendee", given the twin 
constraints of avoiding the fraudulent claim that the "patient" is still legally
alive, while still meeting the requirement that it be a good PR term.

CRYONAUT


Like cryonics itself, cryonaut is not in the dictionary, so it avoids any 
possibility of making any illegal or fraudulent claims. The same can not be said
for either patient, or cryopreserved person.


Unlike terms such as corpsicle, or just plain frozen corpse, cryonaut sounds 
like a good PR term, given that astronaut, or cosmonaut refers to a person that 
is engaged in high adventure travelling in a spacecraft. Cryonaut could mean a 
human body that is engaged in (potentially) high adventure by traveling to the 
future inside a cryostat. Whether said body is ever reconstructed as a live 
human being is for the future to decide.


Until the cryonics movement adopts basic terminology that is not fraudulent, it 
will continue to be vulnerable to legal action.

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