cryonicist

cryonic +‎ -ist

• IPA^(key): /kɹaɪˈɒnɪsɪst/

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cryonicist (plural cryonicists)

1. One who works in the field of cryonics.
   • 2008, Chris Middings, The Reincarnation, page 41:

     Cryonics was in its infancy then, and cryobiologists were hard to find, let alone cryonicists. The former believed the body could be frozen in pieces; the latter that it could be frozen whole.

   • 2015 September 12, Amy Harmon, “A Dying Young Woman’s Hope in Cryonics and a Future”, in New York Times‎:

     Titled “The Brain Preservation Technology Prize: A challenge to cryonicists, a challenge to scientists,” it argued that if a brain was properly preserved, time would not be an issue.

2. A person who is, or who wishes to be, preserved cryonically.
   • 2000, R. Michael Perry, Forever for All, page 377:

     This will not always be the fault of the patient or anyone else; a cryonicist may die in a plane crash, reduced to ashes with nothing left to freeze.

   • 2010, Nicholas Agar, Humanity's End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement:

     To cryonicists, the chance of resuscitation is worth the money required to fund cryonic suspension arrangements. If resuscitation proves impossible, they reason, you are no “deader” than you would have been without suspension […]

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