Nine Lives
an excerpt

A reporter from the Chicago Tribune asked, “How often will the treatment need to be repeated?’

“Once every fifty years. If the patient follows this treatment regimen they can expect have an average life span of 1,000 years.”

All the members of the press began asking the doctor questions at once. A reporter from the Denver Post asked, “One thousand years? Is that really possible?”

“Yes”, replied the doctor, “it will be possible.”