All That Remains

While longer lives are for the most part to be celebrated, I do wonder at times if, in striving to stay alive for as long as possible at all costs, all we are in fact doing is prolonging our dying. While life expectancy may be variable, death expectancy remains unchanged. Should we ever actually conquer death, the human race and the planet would be in real trouble.

...the genomic information had dissolved into a thick, black soupy deposit at the bottom of the coffins, resembling a rich chocolate mousse (anatomists are prone to using food analogies to describe substances they encounter – not terribly appropriate, perhaps, but effective).

Having chunks in your armour isn’t always a sign of weakness. It is often a sign of humanity.