X-Message-Number: 26829
From: Tim Freeman <>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:20:33 -0700
Subject: Customary jargon is better (was Please, it's not suicide!)

X-Message-Number: 26787
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 13:47:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff Davis <>
Subject: Please, it's not suicide!
>Please try to avoid use of the term "suicide" when
>referring to the deliberate, self-initiated suspension
>of biochemical activity for the purpose of and as the
>first step in cryogenic preservation and long term
>storage(cryonic suspension). 
>
>Please try to find another term and use it
>consistently.  Doing so routinely will help to
>memetically de-wacko-ize the perception of cryonics. 

That doesn't work.  Using obviously manipulative jargon is a clear
symptom of being a wacko.  See the secton 'Overcoming "Loaded
Language"' in "Combatting Cult Mind Control" by Steven Hassan, page
176.  This is also consistent with my experience with the Forum,
although that was long enough ago that I've forgotten most of their
weird jargon.

We aren't wackos, so we should use conventional nomenclature as much
as possible.

Hmm, I replied to this earlier but somehow the mail was lost.

-- 
Tim Freeman               http://www.fungible.com           
Programmer/consultant in the Sunnyvale, CA area.       

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