X-Message-Number: 32380
From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Re: cryonics terminology
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:20:24 +0100
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On 8 Feb 2010, at 11:00 AM, CryoNet wrote:

> cryonaut sounds like a good PR term, given that astronaut, or  
> cosmonaut refers to a person that is engaged in high adventure  
> travelling in a spacecraft

It is good PR, but it constricts us to a given technology. Someone  
could come up with a way to vitrify the human body at room  
temperature. (The more general term along this line would be 'time  
traveller', but that has other associations.) So, the term 'suspendee'  
strikes me as having a longer 'shelf life' than cryonaut. The term  
seems to have been in use since at least 1995:
X-Message-Number: 4703

Both terms yield about 9,000 hits on Google.


dss


David Stodolsky
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