Amphetamine Sunrise

Tales of hard drugs and worse...

Consider this a moment: we, you and I, we may be the last generation to die. Stem cell research, nanotech, zip-zap the DNA because - don't you know - we are precoded to DIE. Evolution did not consider our feelings. Why the should it have, how the fuck could it have! So this is the 21st century. We rewrite the little program and our DNA, yours, mine: instead it thinks 'this homo sapiens is twenty one years old' - Forever. You see, every cell in the body dies and is replaced many times over in one's life. Scarsely any of ourSELF is older than a small child. We are coded to die. All of our creations, our hopes and dreams, all of the art and literature and music and wonders of the past: soon to be an anachronism, soon to be the forlorn pathetic and desperate beauty of the "people who got old and died". Laugh Out Loud. We may be the last generation to die. For us, old age and pain and loss and death. For the next born, the exploration of the glittering Universe of a trillion trillion stars...