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Tuck Everlasting-style. I firmly believe in the neccessity of death, but how long I lived on these drugs would depend on circumstances. First of all, can I afford it? Second, what's my quality of life going to be like? If the drugs stop the ageing process and my physical condition is always like that of a 30-year-old or something, I'd probably want to stick around for awhile. But if I keep ageing, just not fatally, I'd probably go a lot sooner. My grandmother's 91, and she lives with us, so I have a firsthand look at what it's like to be old. She's a very healthy 91 (she had her very first heart attack this January, she still drives and does most things for herself, she even learned to use a computer a few years ago), but I still wouldn't want to live more than a few years the way she does. Her whole family's dead except for us and a few of my dad's cousins. A lot of her friends are either dead or dying. She is quite popular at the community Senior Center, but most of the people she's known are dead now. That's another issue: whether my friends and family want to take these drugs. What if, if I have children, they want to die naturally, after their threescore and ten? How eager am I going to be to live on after that?
And, in the end, I must just get tired of it. I may become ready to die.
But I won't live forever.
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God, just imagine the population problem if people stopped dying!
Hazel :-)
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