Made of sterner stuff than the typical geek

Robert Ettinger, while flawed in many ways like everyone else, in one sense displayed a better sort of manhood than the typical geek or science fiction fan. He didn't just fantasize about becoming an "immortal superman," the phrase he uses in Man Into Superman; he then tried to figure out how to become one through the application of scientific rationality, and that led him to publicizing the idea of cryonics and eventually founding the Cryonics Institute, which has now cryosuspended him.

That separates someone like Ettinger from the sorts of guys, often holders of servility jobs, who put on costumes based on science fiction characters and go to, say, Comic Con.

Ironically one cryonicist ordered Ettinger to "Rest in peace" (it has the imperative form grammatically). I really despise that expression. I'd like to replace it with something like, "Don't get too comfortable in that dewar," because we want to see cryonauts resuscitated and back among us when it becomes feasible to do so.