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“2BR02B” is a Vonnegut sci fi short story that imagines a future where aging has been “cured” and population control is mandated by the government. It could be seen as a kind of prequel to “The Big Trip Yonder,” (original title, “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow,” also Shakespearean) a couple centuries in the future, after the invention of a medicine called Anti-Gerasone, which halts the aging process and prevents people from dying of old age as long as they keep taking it; everybody takes it, and as a result, America now suffers from severe overpopulation and food shortages. Grandpa Ford regularly shouts, "Hell, we did that a hundred years ago!" and every day for the last fifty years he has said he is getting ready for “the Big Trip Up Yonder." One of his family plans to kill him, all of his family are greedily fighting. What a crazy story! Fear death?! Why would anyone want to pretend we can live forever?!https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...Cher’s take on this issue:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsKbw....
