Rose: How cold? Jack: Freezing. Maybe a couple degrees over. You ever, uh, you ever been to Wisconsin?
In the mind of cryonicists, it would be entirely inappropriate to refer to a frozen corpse as a corpsicle. In their lingo, after all, a patient is not dead, but rather, “deanimated.” (…)
However appealing the notion of a second life may be, the number of people who’ve actually been frozen is miniscule: about 250, according to the Cryonics Institute. But far more people appear interested in being frozen. Membership in the two biggest cryonics providers in the United States — the Cryonics Institute and the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona — is close to 2000.
