At 06:14 PM 10/3/97 +0200, you wrote:

Mark Doherty wrote:

Actually, it's a point I don't think I've ever seen raised in Crystal
Tokyo fanfics. What was Endymion's words?: "Most people were given
immortality" or something along those lines. If people didn't need
doctors anymore, due to the ginzuisho, how would Ami feel? Sure, she
can do other scientific stuff, but medicine certainly appears to
be her dream(not her only one, since she delayed a scholarship to
do some senshi-ing). ... what can a doctor do in a city of
immortals? I've seen a couple of fics where the future Sailor Venus
goes nuts, but not Mercury. That would be curious.

	Immortality may not mean perfect health and invincibility.
Im not sure about how it was meant into the SM, but
IMHO, immortals still may have the troubles with health,
the doctors are meant from. And even if theyr bodies is
perfect, what about their minds? All the mental 
problems?

Whilst immortality may seem an ideal state, it is just that, a state.  Once
one ceases to change, then a static existence comes into play, forever
unchanging, with all the possible goals one has had in life exhausted.
What does one do then, start everything all over again, or sink into a
state of torpor?  

Immortality may merely be another form of death

But then, it was my belief that there was no eternal life in Crystal Tokyo,
merely super-prolonged existence, with the soul carrying on to another
generation.  I may be wrong about this.