cryocrastinate

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English

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Etymology

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Blend of cryonics +‎ procrastinate.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kɹaɪ.oʊˈkɹæs.tɪ.neɪt/
  • Hyphenation: cry‧o‧cras‧ti‧nate

Verb

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cryocrastinate (third-person singular simple present cryocrastinates, present participle cryocrastinating, simple past and past participle cryocrastinated)

  1. (intransitive, neologism) To put off making arrangements of having one's body cryopreserved upon old age.
    • 2020, Michael Benjamin, Jerry D. Leaf, Max More, R. Michael Perry, “How to Sustain an Organization for Over a Century”, in Cryonics[1], volume 41, number 3, page 14:
      Longterm discounts help to some extent but do nothing to encourage younger members to join rather than to cryocrastinate.
    • 2022 April 19, Peter Ward, quoting Patrick Harris, “How To Pay For a Second Life” (chapter 4), in The Price of Immortality[2], United Kingdom: Melville House Publishing, →ISBN, page 70:
      [] so in cryonics when you delay signing up for your membership we call it 'cryocrastinate.'
    • 2009 July 22, AndrewH, “An observation on cryocrastination”, in lesswrong.com[3], archived from the original on 2024-01-21:
      Why do people cryocrastinate? The most common explanation I’ve heard from intelligent people for not getting cryonics is that the money is better spent on some altruistic cause.
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