S.1. Ep. 6 "Escape Clause"

David Wayne, Mr. Bedeker, and Thomas Gomez, Mr. Cadwallader, play the infallible combination of the douche-bag hypochondriac and the Devil. Mr. Bedeker signs away his soul to the Devil for immortality. The only stipulation, an escape clause. If he wants to die, he can. Whenever he likes.

To test his deal, he jumps in front of a subway train and survives. He begins to create his own accidents, bus, train, fires, etc. just to get money out of it. After 14 accidents, Mr. Bedeker realizes there's no excitement in immortality. He mixes a highly toxic concoction and drinks it.

Next, he goes up 14 stories of his apartment building to jump off as his poor wife rushes after him begging him to reconsider. Suddenly, he pushes her down 14 stories. The heartless and soulless Mr. Bedeker calmly lights a cigarette, calls the police, admits to first-degree murder and says to himself, now let's try the electric chair. Unfortunately for Mr. Bedeker, his lawyer gets him life in prison instead of the chair. That's when he realizes, he's eternally screwed.

In prison, Mr. Cadwallader reminds him of his escape clause. Suddenly, Mr. Bedeker has a heart attack and drops dead.

SPIN

Our world has about seven billion people living in it today. That's a lot of people. Most causes to our growth is from new medications, advanced technologies, ways to live inside our homes and never come out and our lifespan has risen since the 1800s.

According to British online publication, The Guardian, the babies born tomorrow will live five to six hours longer than those born today. Another interesting statistic is the average life expectancy of a man in the UK is about 77 and a woman is about 81.

Recently, Time Magazine put immortality on the cover of their Feb. 21 edition.

Time believes man will become immortal by 2045. Here's an interesting timeline to see how we've advanced. Immortality is a movement called 'Singularity'. Time defines singularity as, “The moment when technological change becomes so rapid and profound, it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history.”

Ray Kurzweil is the leading figure of this movement. He is a futurist and believes in a super intelligence. I'm sure his name will begin to appear in the news more and more as we progress technologically and societally.

With new medicines, however, comes new diseases. Super diseases. Think influenza meets AIDS meets cancer meets whatever Natalie Portman contracts in the Black Swan movie on steroids. Soon enough, we won't die, we'll just become zombies that look like Natalie Portman Black Swan style.

And we'll all come out, kinda like this.
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