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Fiction

The Confession

Mike Mallory sits in on a future tribunal.

Confession: M3-2156-45,678

Identity: IC-US-1,784,832

Provide a full statement of events:

When it was first announced that health care and gene therapy had reached the point that humans could be made capable of immortality, I was, like everyone else, ecstatic. All I could think about was how lucky I was to be born at this exact time. It was like winning the lottery of all lotteries.

Then the restrictions started rolling in. I was not surprised when the International Immortality Commission determined that the planet could not support both reproducing and immortal humans.

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