“A cure for old age is a very common wish,” Kurtz observed. “Dashed slug-a-beds want to be shot by a jealous husband, not a nurse bored with emptying the bedpan.”

—  Charles Stross, book Singularity Sky

Source: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 15, “Delivery Service” (p. 317)

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