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Originally Posted by slayda
There was an SF short story I once read about a scientist that developed an immortality drug. One dose and you could not die. As the story progressed, a rat got into the drug and became immortal. The scientist had a "rat killing", caught the rat and beat it to a bloody pulp. Of course the rat couldn't die. He just lay there forever, in pain watching the scientist.
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Nothing is new. There was a story in Greek mythology about a goddess who asked Zeus to make her mortal lover immortal. He did so, but because she had neglected to ask for him to be ageless, he just got older, and older, and older, but could never die.