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A surprise benefit may be finding out which members of the human race are actually immortal and have been hiding it from the rest of society. /s

https://www.popdust.com/conspiracy-theory-thursday-keanu-ree...

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I've always found it slightly amusing that we've now reached the time in the history of civilization where immortality, even were it possible, has become a massive liability. One can no longer simply assume a new identity of proper age, and attempting to do so is liable to get you jailed, or worse still, in some shady government lab.

It's even getting to be the case now that you can't just move to a new country and start over. Unless you've got skilled forgers close at hand, you're going to have a bad time immediately, and with facial recognition and biometrics, you'll have a worse time still.

It's perhaps the definition of a low-probability corner case, but if any alchemists happened to succeed, they're no doubt having a pretty depressing century.

I think if you've lived a few centuries, you might've picked up the skills, experience and connections required to make it work. There are already plenty of regular people living with false identities, so you wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb. Plastic surgery solves the rest.

> I think if you've lived a few centuries, you might've picked up the skills, experience and connections required to make it work.

This is how the immortals from Ilaria Corporation handled it in Helix. The show was promising, it's really sad it quickly went from interesting to crazy to utter gross.

Keanu's relatives.

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