X-Message-Number: 32374
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:50:16 +0100 (CET)
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Subject: Re: cryonics terminology


Another word next to CRYONAUT that deserves mentioning is PRESERVEE. The plural 
preservees, which means those who are put into preservation, must be seen in its
plausible context. Similarly to the word suspendee, the word preservee refers 
to someone who is put passively into a state of safe-keeping. Preservee stands 
in context to preservation like suspendee to suspension. Since the LONGEVITY 
MEME NEWSLETTER 
http://www.longevitymeme.org/newsletter/view_newsletter.cfm?newsletter_id=261 
used this word in 2008, there will be no problem to use it more frequently in 
hindsight to cryonics.

> From: 
> 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.

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