Longevity -- Fiction; Physicians -- Fiction; Science fiction; Short stories
"I suppose that it's the best thing in a bad deal. But I'm wondering
about accidents. Just the other day, I read an insurance company
statement. The insurance statisticians said that accidents have become
so scarce in the past decade that they'll be virtually non-existent,
in another half-century. I'll be 100 by that time, just in the prime of
life. If there aren't any more accident victims, what will I do for a
living? I couldn't find a job at that age, you know."
The other two doctors shrugged their shoulders, in unison. With the
wisdom of age, Dr. Manville said:
"Well, if you find yourself in that situation, you can always go to see
a doctor."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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