corpsicle

Definition

A person who has been cryonically frozen in the hope of later revival.

Etymology

Blend of corpse + popsicle. The cryogenic sense is a coinage by author Frederik Pohl in The Age of the Pussyfoot (1969).

Example Sentences

• "'Your newspapers called you people corpsicles,' said the blond man. 'I never understood what the tapes meant by that.' 'It comes from Popsicle. Frozen sherbet.' Corbell had used the word himself before he became one of them. One of the corpsicles, the frozen dead."
• "There are dozens of companies that will turn you into a human corpsicle and store your chilled earthly remains indefinitely."
• "I won't turn you into a corpsicle and hope somebody knows how to fix you in a hundred years."