Talk:Cryonics Institute

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Does the Board of Directors select the Contract Officer? If so, shouldn't that be noted?Cecelia Hensley 23:10, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Is this possible to know/get the financial reports of the institute? including money donated to the research lab? It would be good to have a better transparency. Also, maybe it would be good to see an ombudsman with CI. Despres

[edit] Body vs. patient vs. corpse

Let's discuss this here and please give below justification for different terms.

Arguments for "patient":

• That's the accepted term that is used at CI. In an article about CI it's proper to use this term. If necessary, it can be clarified why CI prefers to call the patients patients.
• That's the point of cryonics. The idea is that death is not instanteneous and so even though the person is declared "legally dead" he is still not a corpse yet. He's just in clinical death (suspended animation), only it's longer than usual.
• The article is about the treatment of people, not disposal of dead bodies. So the word patient is proper.

Anyway, here's my 2 cents. Please comment and discuss. Paranoid (talk) 23:53, 11 January 2008 (UTC)