X-Message-Number: 27185
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 14:42:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: Jargon
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Jordan Sparks opines:

> To suggest that 'suspension' is jargon that only
> cyronicists will understand just doesn't make sense to me.
> Everyone knows what suspension means, whether they have
> heard of cryonics or not.

"Suspension" frequently causes misunderstandings, since it
has so many other well-established meanings, some of them in
science (a "cryonic suspension" might just as well be a way
of describing some kind of mixture or emulsion of something
which does not dissolve readily in something else).

Cryopreservation is the correct term for what we do. The
question is not why we want to use it; the question is why
anyone would not want to use it.

The insistence that cryonics should have its own vocabulary
has always seemed yet another illustration of the
egocentricity and eccentricity that afflicts our field. In
reality, are really not important enough to make everyone
else do it our way.

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