X-Message-Number: 8875 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 16:18:22 -0500 From: Robin Helweg-Larsen <> Subject: Re: new words References: <> steve jackson wrote: > What about "indefinite life span"? > > (Same problem as the search for replacements for "dying" and "frozen." Some > cryonicists are terribly uncomfortable with those words, and want to say > "When I deanimate (or "leave this life cycle") I'll be cryonically > suspended." > > Unfortunately, this sounds a lot like the stuff you get from the kind of > people who are just dying to get on that spaceship behind the comet . . . > > which is why I tell my friends "When I die, they're going to freeze me, and > I might come back someday." i think we've been over this argument before. i agree with steve's position. i think there's a culture shift happening (glacially slowly) in our favor. when the concept is no longer bizarre, the words won't matter anyway (or they will have evolved anyway, driven by media popularization of slang). robinhl Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=8875