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Wayward Sun (yak shaver extraordinaire)Oh, the richness: Putin and Xi discussing organ transplants for life extension
OTOH, imagining Putin awake at night fearfully considering his own impending death, the same guy who has people slaughtered in Ukraine: well, it's something, I guess.
OTOH, the quest for immortality, no cost spared, has been standard for arse wipes from Qin Shi Huang to Thiel
On the gripping hand, guess at whose expense no cost will be spared? Where will the pristine, prime-of-life organs be harvested? Clones, you say? Who has time for that?! Not Putin.
As Ian M. Banks has it in a throwaway aside in Use of Weapons about an unspecified Ethnarch (who is exactly the kind of arse wipe you would expect from such a title):
His heart — the heart of an athletic young anarchist woman up until eleven years ago — was beating quickly, but not worryingly so.
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