On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Aivars Liepa 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?

Anyone here read _The_Last_Immortal_ (sorry, can't remember who the author
was) but in that one an Immortal was simply a being who was unaffected by
age.  Desease, accidents, etc were all just as painful and harmful as it
was to mortals.  
Here's an idea:  what if a virus was released into Crystal Tokyo that
caused people to age normaly?  It wouldn't revert them to their actual
age, but they would start aging from the age they appeared to be.  eg.  a
200 year old man who looks 30 when he catches the virus will look 60 in 30
years.  Who released the virus?  (Maybe Ami did it--created it and
accidentily released it, or released it on purpose)  Why was the virus
released?  (No body does anything because of random cruelty, not even
villans--the Dark Kingdom wanted to release Metallia, Ail and Ann wanted
to save the Doom Tree, the Dark Moon wanted to conquer Crystal Tokyo,
etc.--what's the purpose behind this one?  If it's to collect energy, what
could be feeding off of the life force that keeps people immortal?)

Anyone want to do this one?

AJ