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Re:The fight to cheat death is heating up by ashark on Thursday August 11, 2016 @05:30PM (#12271700)
> write stories about elixirs of youth

One of our earliest extant pieces of literature (fragments from ~2100 BCE, earliest complete version before 1000 BCE) is about that, in fact. It's a cautionary tale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh

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Re:The fight to cheat death is heating up by FeepingCreature on Thursday August 11, 2016 @05:47PM (#12271823)
It's easy to be cautionary if there's no chance of actually achieving it. http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2625
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Re:The fight to cheat death is heating up by TeMPOraL on Thursday August 11, 2016 @06:19PM (#12272047)
Truth be told, we have cautionary tales in our literature about pretty much any single thing a human being can desire. Power? Check. Riches? Check. Love? Check.
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