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I'm not sure that I have any weirdness points left /to/ lose. I'm fully signed up for cryo, which makes me weirder than 99.9999% of the population; throw in any other details about myself, such as atheism or schizoid personality, and I'm weirder still. ... That said, just last week I upgraded my wardrobe from nearly entirely t-shirts to enough button-up shirts to wear all the time, so I'm not necessarily /obviously/ weird. I don't plan on starting to swear any more than I do now, so adding an idiosyncratic swear-word to the ones I might draw from doesn't seem as if it would measurably increase how odd I seem to others.
Of course, YMMV, so an unusual curse-word that ties into your presumed anti-deathist leanings may or may not be worth the idiosyncrasy credit.
You don't have to tell people that you're signed up for cryonics or an atheist! They can only deduct weirdness points if they know about them. You should be engaged more in invisible weirdness and being very careful about conforming visibly with your dress, hair style, how you normally talk; having a tattoo everyone can see is far more costly to your credibility's health bar than being signed up for cryonics where only your lawyer knows.