From:	Mongoose m0ng005e@*********.com
Subject:	Wraiths
Date:	Mon, 15 Feb 1999 19:44:30 -0600

:Ah yes, the stupid question of how immortality is attained. Here's a
hint...
:
:Go Cybermantic...
:

People have said this before. I assume the basis is the supposed
Azanian use to extend certain peoples lives?
To me that sounds like an "emergency" extension, kinda like you'd get
on taxes- and about as useful for avoidance.
Cybermancy does not in any way grant "immunity to age", that I can
tell. On the contrary, it often causes cancer and other aging related,
unpreventable illness. Worse, it creates new survival threatening
problems (drug dependence, "better off dead", etc). Plus there is the
simple fact that Immortal is forever. I may be a pessimist, but I would
not lay odds on a cyberzombie being able to get the care s/he needs to
survive forever.
Even if those don't get you, the Chronic Disassociation Syndrome rolls
you must occasionally make are a problem. In the span of "forever", you
will fail enough of those CDS rolls that sooner or latter, it will get
you- especially since each failure makes subsequent treatment harder.
All this ignores what may be the most important factor for
immortality- the will to live. Its a lifestyle thing, and I don't think a
cyberzombie would be stable enough to stay alive for a century, let alone
millennia.

Mongoose