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| Logan's Run: The Human Quest for Life | ||||||
| This is a story about a possible future where, upon turning 21 an implant in the palm of your hand would start flickering and flashing, which would lead the authorities to catch you and and put an end to your life. | ||||||
| . | One officer, Logan, tried to escape from this death sentence when his light began to flash. He confronted the staunch loyalty of the people around him in which they support wholeheartedly this shortened lifespan. | . | ||||
| . | We are now in Logan's Run freind. All you do is replace 21 with 100 and you will see that the flashing light is replaced by wrinkled skin, fragile bones, and failing organs. Replace the societal death enthuisiasm, displayed by Logan's society, with all the stereotypes that we consider the aged with and certainly you will see that this is absurd. | . | ||||
| . | For example; many people percieve that there is a need to end life after it has been lived for a century. Some go so far as to support many of the changes that take place in the body with age, as somehow ethical? | . | ||||
| . | There are Logan's popping up all around and they are questioning this requirement that we die. The time has come to at least protest this situation. We need to consider the possibility that we can escape from death by our own means. | . | ||||
| . | The trip through the underworld and the escape to life the way it should be, are Logan's only goal at first. Then he decided to go back to his civilization and inform them that they can have things another way and that this artificial death was only the use of them as -means to an end-. | . | ||||
| . | Likewise I say we should not set by and watch this catastrophe set itself upon us. Then when we can effect this situation a double condemnation on those who would say die anyway it is the way of nature. | . | ||||
