Immortality, What To Do When You Have Acquired

You've Got Nothing To Do And Eternity To Do It In

by Jeff Hillary (skip4@airmail.net)
written 17 Mar 1997

This article is classified "Fictional"


So, you've acquired eternal life?  Sounded like a good thing at the time,
didn't it?  But after a while things started to get boring.  Your friends
all died, and whenever you have to show a cop your driver's license (because
all creatures like a little intergalactic game of high speed bumper cars)
you are put in jail for producing a fake driver's permit ("Date Of Birth:
1001").

Those of you who are not immortal are probably wondering how you can acquire
immortality.  Well, it is very difficult.  First:  don't die (this is the
hardest part).  Then, after you are through not dying, go to the Kurt
Manning Laboratory for the Criminally Insane, and tell them you want to be
immortal.  After you wake up and find your wallet missing, just live life to
its eternity.

Well, now that you have all of eternity, here is a list of things you can
do.  If you aren't immortal, and are just reading this because you are
bored, you can try some of them as well.

          1) Become a Field Researcher for the PGG.  You stand an
             excellent chance of keeping your job, and after everyone else
             working there has died of old age, you might get to be in
             charge because you will be the most experienced.
          2) Paint an entire planet like a giant mural.  It is time
             consuming, and could become fun after a while; imagine a
             planet with a portrait of yourself painted on it.
          3) Learn every language in the Universe.  Why not, it isn't like
             you don't have the time to do it.
          4) Create a time machine and go back in time to either become your
             own father, or better yet, keep yourself away from whatever
             gave you immortality in the first place.
          5) Put a few Altairian Dollars in a bank account and forget about
             it for a few years, then return in 245,807,567 years, and buy
             the whole universe, and make all the brainy scientists find a
             way to cure immortality.
          6) Make a list of things to do when you have acquired immortality.
             Then send it to me [1].

[1] As you can see, I haven't acquired immortality... yet.

See also:
  • Boredom
  • Arguments, Infinitely Prolonging
  • Time Travel
  • Life After Death

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