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 OK CONNECT 57600/LAPM/V42BIS/2400:TX/2400:RX 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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25791