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Satire: Death

by Karim Jessa

Created on: August 03, 2011

The following are excerpts from a news presentation given by the distinguished authority on Health and Medicine, Lafra Dablawala, PhD, of the Research Dept. of Bakwas Institute, one of the world's leading medical universities.

In a special report, the full details of which can be read in "The Ghanta Journal of Medicine," titled: "Death: Who Is At Risk?" the doctor says that results prove conclusively that all humans are at risk of dying at some point in their lives.

After preliminary remarks explaining the latest breakthrough in medical research which has confirmed the risk of death for humans, the session was opened to questions from journalists representing the major newspapers of the world.

Since the session got a bit out of hand due to the distress caused by the announcement, some journalists had to be forcefully ejected from the building.

Q: Are the findings quite conclusive on this matter of death?

A: Absolutely so. There is not slightest possibility of error. Death is a certainty for humans. Everyone is at risk.

Q: How great of a risk?

A: The odds are 100 percent for death.

Q: But surely with all the advancement in science, there must be some way of preventing such a fatality for humans.

A: We see no possibility of preventing death for the foreseeable future. I wouldn't raise my hopes too high.

Q: All these years Science has been promising to prolong life indefinitely, and now these disastrous findings. How do you explain it?

A: We've known it all along, but the results were suppressed because it was felt humans weren't mature enough to face the truth.

Q: Why reveal it now?

A: It's time to grow up.

Q: Doctor, have you heard of the rioting that has been taking place in the major cities all over the world, due to the shock at the failure of science to produce the elixir of eternal life?

A: Yes, I've heard the news. I would advise people to remain calm, and face their inevitable death bravely.

Q: How about yourself? What was your response to the discovery?

A: I'm a Christian; I don't have to worry about death.

Q: Why don't the scientists try and learn from Christianity? I'm sure they wouldn't mind sharing their secret of eternal life.

A: As scientists we are bound by our code of honor not to take any help from religion in this matter.

Q: Coming back to science; we've been told that scientists have the solution to all the possible disasters threatening the world, except death. Can you elaborate on this.

A: Well, it is true. We have the know-how and the technology

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