X-Message-Number: 13769
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 06:30:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: The Donaldson Definition

> You are a cryonicist if and only if you have made preparations, both
> legal and financial, to assure that you will be cryonically suspended
> after your legal death.

With Thomas's customary air of certainty, I gather he has defined a new
word in the English language.

Unfortunately, he has skipped over a few people (such as myself, and some
friends of mine) who remain active in cryonics while not being signed up
for cryopreservation procedures. 

Conversely, he includes people who are signed up, but because of their
location (or other perverse human factors), have little chance of being
cryopreserved in a timely or successful manner.

I don't think definitions are quite as simple as Thomas seems to imagine--
certainly not in a field so notorious for irrational human behavior.

--CP

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