Nov 27, 2003 22:35
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I was facing those crossroads.
A young graduate; a man of science, I was naught but twenty-three when I stared down at the still, palid faces of my mother and father. "Old age" had been the cause of their demise. Old age..at fifty-two.
It was unfair. Unthinkable, I cried to myself as a gnashed teeth when the twin coffins were lowered into the cold, still earth. Cold and still..just like they had been... Unfair that two wonderful lives, so pure as theirs, so just, should be extinguished at such a young age.
Then..that very moment, in the milisecond it takes for the human brain to fire between synapses, I decided. No man, nor woman, nor child should ever cower at the feet of death again. They would have time. Have the youth to finish their lives. To do all that they ( ... )
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