Mortality, How To Go Beyond It.

by Joe B.

“Requiem For Mortality"

What does the above title mean? I means sooner than later humanity must deal with a concept that has always been a given... Death.

Yes, we still die by various means accident, suicide, homicide, freak of nature, non and malfunction genes, lethal radiation, drowning, thirst, lack of food, heart-lung-liver-brain-bone-cellular disease.

You name it we’ve die from it, we live fragile lives in anything September 11, 2001 forever drilled that into cores of our being as all the wars, diseases, and nature has taught us over and over.

But with every set back we learn anew how we tick and though we still die we are ever closer to preventing or retrieving our lives from death’s door.

Man-Womankind has called death friend, savior, salve, implacable enemy, scourge when youth is taken before they’ve learned to taste sweetness and bitter of life’s joy and pain.

I just pray this so called war on terrorism does not derail applied science and research to the fact that as a species we are suppose to rise from these terrible scenes of carnage and steadily improve our lot.

Right now our political and economic systems seems bent on a backward bent while advancing technologies to improve and save lives are left wanting.

We need more than two political parties that are 200 plus years old and are two sides of the same coin.

Isn’t it time many more parties as alternatives to what we’ve known?

Though it feels safe and comfortable sticking with old tried and true brands each new century demands changes.

It is now time to have other views that are as politically viable,
edgy, and valid as the two Grand Old Parties.

What is needed now is N.P.P. New Political Parties.

I really shouldn’t be thinking of this since I’m not really that political; but if the personal is political then here where I’m at.

The Life Extension, L5’vers, Cryobiology (Cryonics), Neptune Society, Cloning and Elimination of Death Society, and Immortalists, everywhere must come together.

Neptune Societies “Death with dignity” is not in conflict with any of their life affirming sister’s and brother’s because freedom and dignity at the end of live is equally as precious as living prolong, extended lives.

These organizations must now form strong parties, develop their podiums, rules for membership, and regulations, and have economic clout to place their ideas on ballots for people to vote on and be able to have their party official elected to offices to further their crossing agendas.

Snickering, outright horse laughs at first but as science advances or own minds must also.

Life extension, cloning, gene manipulation or modification is no longer a party joke are any of you out there laughing now or are you thinking beyond and can imagine a time when organ transplants cloned from you or anyone else could save your life and those of loved ones?

Our S-President and others are in the throes of religious, war fever and can not or will not see that all God cares about is we be good to each other and if living longer, improving, saving lives is not what humanity is about they we can unhook all or science and return back to the middle ages where darkness and superstition reigned.

This administration will soon pass by 2004 or ‘08 either way we must move on beyond both narrow sighted parties, the future of our continued survival depends on advancing forward - not at breakneck speed but in a steady pace.

I am sure others reading this have many more ideas and dialogs can begin so the parties mentioned and others not even imagined will pop up.

It will be confusing, exasperating, and headache making but it is one way of braking out of our stale two party system.

In the 22nd 23rd or 24th century would you want your great to the 4th or 5th power grandchildren still to be deal with a two party system or a lively free for all of many different parties?

As for poor folks in this new age the stakes are even higher.

Imagine the Newsom’s great grandkids, some progressive, doing what they can to ensure everyone has safe, longer, healthier lives but their are a few new-old guard in both GOP’s with power to shorten lives without using the death penalty.

The Death Penalty is finally seen as useless and banned forever in the United States.

Now people can chose how long or short their lives are but their are a few in political power that want to choose long and short for others not economically or deemed socially acceptable.

Again besides having little or now money, seen as a drag on society, ideas of “Shortening” the POOR’s life span as a way to help them cope with life extended individuals in the city and everywhere in America and the world.

Yes the poor are healthier, more intelligent, and able to travel to where high tech jobs and better, more secure career choices may be end up able to afford longer life extensions or cryo-cases for temporary death/sleep stasis until revival.

But for a vast multitude trapped in dead-end jobs, crumbling neighborhoods, dying town and cities prolonged life is a dream and only by life-lotto, cryo-bets, or rich benefactor, corporations can longer life be possible.

The Newsom Points (sound familiar) are to help easing housing crunch by shorting working poor, and homeless by 20 to 50 years and 200 to 300 add life spans given to people who are worth the effort.

At first voluntary and later mandatory so if any child is born in a certain sections of the city (Another New York model) their spans or shortened unless they show genius in “official categories” deemed by political/scientific/education/ and or entertainment, sports minded leaders.

This in a hypothetical tale and can only happen if we continue on the same unwavering path.

We must make our choices know, gather people and money then begin the painful and eventually healthy process or multiple political party system.

Let September 11, 2001 - be the watershed and beacon pointing to change and renewal.

What do you say people? Bye.