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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 11:07:58 EST
Subject: Terminology nonsense

See below for Oberon quotes.
 
This is nonsense. It would be neither reasonable nor effective
in PR to adopt the terminology our detractors would use. There
is nothing hidden or deceptive in calling our patients by that
label, and it helps advance our viewpoint. 
 
Incidentally, the Cryonics Institute is now licensed as a
cemetery, and the Michigan regulatory agencies had
no trouble with our terminology. 
 
Robert Ettinger
 
 
Oberon wrote in part:
 
"Tn a bookstore near you there is currently available for sale a  book
entitled "Frozen", which is an expose of the lies and deceit endemic  to
the cryonics movement. It is very unlikely that such a book would  have
ever existed but for the use of deceptive and even fraudulant  terminology
by cryonics institutions. If Alcor billed itself as a storage  facility for
frozen corpses, the sales of such a book would be  zero."

and
 
"referring to "suspendees" as either persons or patients constitutes 
fraud by any definition of the word."


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