tjames opened this issue on Jun 24, 2004 ยท 32 posts
jagill posted Tue, 29 June 2004 at 12:45 PM
The idea of facing your own mortality had awakened something in Magna, and he began to think about the things that bothered him most and how they seemed so trivial now. After he gets this new heart, he is going to savor every single day. Then he got the call. The one clone who could save Magna escaped! He was furious and shocked. Then his anger quickly subsided and he began to feel sorrowful. It's one thing to have a body part ready to go, but to know that it will be taken from a living, intelligent being that desparately wants to prolong its own life--it's just not the way Magna wanted this to go. Maybe this was his time. "Why should we try so hard to cheat death?" he thought. "The clone is a copy of me. The clone is me." And with that final thought, Magna decided the clone must live. By helpng the clone, he would be helping himself. And he discovered a new unselfish purpose in life that made him feel good about himself. There just had to be something he could do. 010