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by Joe B. Ordinary Immortal Stuff After paying rent, buying healthy food, talking to friends I lay down one late Saturday night thinking of nothing in particular suddenly thoughts of immortality interrupts my random roaming mind. What is eternal life but continued living as before. Its not a drastic thing if you think about a bit But think:if at a certain point in time we at various ages from 24 to 95 or more with some reversal,some rejuvenation,careful intake of life extending drugs,gene therapy,using blastosis, stem cells,or discarded embryo’s for therapeutic cloning in case some people cannot regenerate their limbs or internal organs. So,what does one do when extended life and immortality is common as the flu,no longer about money but the choice between having a natural span (growing old and dying) or complete regenerative,rejuvenated immortal life? I know what to do on rainy days – count my blessings. But life being what it is lets say you and have good jobs but we lose because of cut backs, down sizing. Food and shelter is still important but now if one of us is life enhancing drugs or therapy the other doesn’t need it. There may be underground contacts among houseless Im’s or EL’s – ExtendLifer’s. Spend some saved money, find side jobs and keep healthy. I might find work as a custodian or lab tech in the gray market low tech life extension immortality network where technology is as good but every gene/cyber upgrade is chancy at best. Could work my way up better labs learning enough to steal or make genetic advancements. A former researcher who became homeless herself retains her knowledge, stole back her own resarch of clandestine life extension technologies. She could’ve befriended any of the higher us in the food chain but to me she hung around. She made have gene- upgraded herself a little but its not romance time as I glean factual and theoretical knowledge of extension work. I imagine Ms.Shire was was married or dated someone to another brain like herself and I’ll be a fling. Five years later I’m no longer custodian/slash lab aide but full lab tech helping Shire with experiments she smuggled from a Pharmacy Medi-corp Group and both us have benefited it seems to have improved my body and sped up thought,analyzing processes and de aged me by a 30 years. Somehow the first few batches of E-Life rejuvenates people,gives them incredible healing powers and though the original process only worked for 20 years Shire created an improved 7O year process. "Why give the improved batch for free people warning them its a one time deal explaining they have 70 years to live through the next life extended phase. While the 2O year stuff is sold to to wealthy who’ll pay up the snout."I suggested. Shire smiled "serves ‘em right." We and a few others have four times the mixture which means a possible 280 extra years give or take a few decades. I don’t know why but Ms. Shire now wants to marry ME! I say yes in shock as for gray market life extension network both legit and illegal flourish one serving the other with satellite organizations all over the country. Money, health, love, and long lives, two decades have made me and Shire happier, healthier,smarter,more in love than ever. We both left invested globally overseas spreading longevity durgs, tech, and gene therapies. I think immortality is only years away as long as we’re training houseless people more than basic skills spreading the lopsided life extension along with education and housing to those really in need. I don’t know how I’ll be as a father of twin baby girls and an infant son but Shire says she’s glad she chose me to marry. She calls me her perfect diamond joy. Yes, all fiction except life extension is real and immortality is a when not if. Just a matter of living long enough through non stop life extending breakthroughs. Will the rich be the ones to benefit first or everyone equally? (I’d advise rebel researcher’s scientist,and those in the know to create clandestine gray/black markets for fast coming breakthroughs,spread them through the population of poor, middle class,and rich simultaneously. Who knows it could be happening now with disgruntle lab tech’s professors,students with ideas beyond today’s slow dinosaur like institutions. What can reader’s recommend especially for challenges like these? Thjis is the next on going and next to last revolution.
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