• WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Now I’m starting to wonder if being in a coma for twenty years from a toaster/gun shot would still qualify as alive.

      Dammit

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        11 months ago

        The 1950s sci-fi pulp author Fredric Brown wrote one of his (then) famous short-short stories about a man who came up with the serum for immortality and took it, but he had a cold at the time, and the germs also developed immortality and reproduced so much that his symptoms got worse and worse and eventually put him into a coma. After a while, his colleagues realized he’d never get out of the coma, so they just buried him.