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"Calm down!" said Melinda. "Surely this is what everyone wants. Look at how hospitals cure the sick if they can. They cure them - they don't say 'Oh good you are sick so you can go to heaven and have a lovely time with God.' Look at organisations like the Cryonics Institute that actually cryopreserve people at the point of death so that they can be reanimated in the future to an indeterminate life in good health. And what about the Life Extension Foundation who sell vitamins to a massive customer base and use the profits to research more anti-aging products. There is a book called Strange Brains and Genius that includes ideas similar to cryonics that existed in the early 20th century - bodies were electroplated in the hope that they could preserved.
"Then how about popular newsletters like Longevity Report which discusses the issues for and aginst these ideas? The novel The First Immortal is, I understand, to be made into a television mini-series. It is highly thought off. All the people that read these things would be highly delighted to be in the situation you are in.
Jake was stupefied at this response. Was his apparently meek God fearing wife who sat beside him in Church every Sunday really reading this diabolical stuff? He had heard that the Internet was full of pornography and has added loads of 'rules' to Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook Express so that nothing like that could get into their computer. But he had never realised that there were other sorts of Satan inspired ideas that could so infect someone so quickly. He was even more worried as Melinda carried on:
"In Longevity Report, a Dr Donaldson wrote an article called Jesus was an Immortalist. He pointed out how Jesus went around healing the sick and raising the dead. Jesus told his followers to go and do likewise. Why would Jesus want to raise the dead if they were going off to have a lovely time with God in heaven? Surely he would just have told the grieving relatives just that. Instead He raised them and told His people to do the same. It is only now that our science has advanced so that we will be able to do so in a few decades, and in the meantime those that die too soon can be cryopreserved. Of course all that is no longer necessary, thanks to Mr T and his friends. I would say that Jesus Himself, not Satan, has sent Mr T."
Jake was not convinced, but on seeing that the crowd that had gathered were interested in what Melinda has said he decided to keep quiet. His religious upbringing had also given him family loyalty, and the last thing he wanted to do was to start an argument in public. But he begun to think that he'd have to start a resistance movement against what he had termed in his mind "The Alien Deviation". If he stuck with God, however much suffering God doled out on the way, God would reward him far more than the kooks, alien or human, his wife had got involved with.
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