THE DEATH OF IMMORTALITY

摘要

"In all my years, I've never..." the doctor trembled while checking the readings. "Your son, he's going to die." Tears streamed down the mother's face. She gripped her newborn tightly. "What does that mean, he's going to die? How, how long does that take?" The doctor hesitated. "Maybe a century. The genetic implants did not take. Somehow, the testing failed." Pulling up a millennium-old document in the Venter Laboratories database, he found the passage. "Continually shrinking telomeres. He will age and develop archaic tumours and, eventually, cancer. His body will fail. We haven't seen anything like this since the Mortal Era." Jaw clenched, she chewed on her words. "Do you know how many centuries it took to get approval for a child? And now what... he's like... like one of our dogs!"