(Page 1 of 2) Heaven on Earth by Ky Wright
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SUMMARY: Please rate my story. I would really appreciate some comments as well. Thanks"There really is a heaven, where there is no hunger, no thirst, almost no death and lots of beautiful angels, who all put out. And to get in you don't have to believe in God, you don't even have to be good, you just need to have enough cash and know the right people. Luckily you know me".
"Finding the cure for aging was surprisingly straightforward. A lot more work has actually gone into making sure no one else figures it out. It's simply a case of inhibiting the production of the chemicals that signal your cells to stop repairing and replacing themselves. By also stimulating the chemicals that encourage new cell growth they are able to reverse the process, meaning that after 6 months of treatment a 70 year old man will have the body of himself aged 25, which is the age most men choose to stabilise at. The women tend to go for about 19. No one's done it yet but there is no reason why someone shouldn't then be able to live to at least 300".
"Who figured this all out and when? Well this bit is slightly embarrassing. Our father, who art in heaven is...Hitler". Ben Lomax spat his coffee in his lap, removed his headphones and pressed pause. His brother, Gerry Lomax, would have enjoyed that and it was undoubtedly his intention. As children the brother's parents would often speak of their great grandparents and great aunties and uncles who had been murdered in Hitler's concentration camps. As such, the name ‘Hitler' had always held a unique power for them both. Ben, who was sat alone on the Lomax private jet, on his way to his brother's funeral, checked his watch and figured he would land in about 2 hours. Keen to hear the punch line of his brother's final joke he replaced the head phones and pressed play on the mp3 player which he had found on his seat when boarding.
His brother continued, "Realising that the Second World War was not going to work out how he had wanted Hitler struck a deal with the Americans. In exchange for his and his family's life he would share with them the secret which his scientists had discovered in the Auschwitz laboratories. Now, it only takes some quick mental arithmetic to work out that if everyone starts living to 300 that we are going to run out of houses and hospitals and food and space pretty quick. So naturally the US government, or at least the 3 or 4 people who knew about this, kept it quiet. Since then, access to the cure has been restricted to a tiny elite who own and run the world, and also some of their friends and family, plus various artists, entertainers and models - there's a lot of models - which the committee agree on. Some of these people you will have heard of, Elvis, Marylyn Munroe, the Kennedy family, but most are part of an anonymous group of real world rulers". Ben hit pause again and poured himself a large whisky.
Over the last few years the two brothers had grown apart. Ben had become bored of the business, which the brothers had transformed from a million dollar family mining company into a 50 billion dollar conglomerate. Whilst Ben had been taking time off to spend with his family, Gerry had been busy making powerful friends.
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