
Ways to Live Forever
Recording!
Don't look at me, this was your idea.
Today is January the seventh.
This is a video-book,
and everything I write down here...
I'm going to record on this video
so my memory will live forever.
What you do that for!!!
Go and fix it.
Me?! You go and fix it.
Actually, the idea
for the video book wasn't mine,
it was Mrs Willis...
though everything really began
a long time before that...
the afternoon I came home.
One, my name's Sam;
three, I collect stories
and fantastic facts;
four, I have leukemia.
And five:
by the time you see this,I'll probably be dead.
Sam
It's your new room.
So you don't have
to climb the stairs...
This diary is a collection
of stories, images,
questions and facts...
and it's also my story.
Good.
As for the way I look;
Mohave hair.
Last year it all fell out
because of the medicine I was taking,
but it's grown back.
It's brown...light brown.
I've got green eyes.
I've got tons of bruises.
It's not my fault,
it's what happens
when you get leukemia.
Oh!, I forgot.
I have a birth mark the shape
of a four-leaf clover on my knee,
but it doesn't grant any wishes.
if I have to study?
It's our first day, Felix.
And it could be our last.
So?
Doesn't it say anything
to you at all?
at humanity for centuries...
How no to dying.
Come on then, think of ways
to live forever.
Get turned into a vampire,
and that's you.
As long as you don't run
into Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Very good, Sam?
Get them to freeze you.
Then in hundreds of years time
a company will find a cure
for cancer and the secret
of eternal life,
and then they can defrost you.
What a load of rubbish.
The safest way is
to copy your brain onto a hard disk
and live eternally on a computer...
and hope you don't get a virus.
Over the centuries,
humans have discovered
that living forever isn't possible,
but there is something eternal
we can leave behind.
Works of art.
Mrs. Willis told us about
how works of art lodge themselves
into people's hearts.
She told us we should write
something about ourselves.
I know you both like to read,
she said to us.
We like reading because
there was no telly in the hospital.
My sister Ella is seven.
My Mum called me Sam 'cause
of Samson from the Bible,
and my Dad chose Ella
for my sister after an Aunt of his.
They didn't realise Sam n' Ella together
sounds just like...salmonella.
Is Sam still sick?
She asks too many questions.
Sam isn't going to the hospital anymore.
He's going to stay at home with us.
So, why isn't he going to school?
I don't have to go back
to the hospital or to school,
because I'm going to die.
Darling, don't say that.
Dying is the most waffle thing
in the world.
No one knows anything.
You ask them questions
and they cough and change the subject.
If I grow up, I'm going
to be a scientist.
I'm going to work out the answers
to all these questions no one answers.
Now I'm going to give
some information about my illness.
People say I've got leukemia,
but I like to say I have granular,
spheroidal globules.
Some guy called John Hughes
Bennett discovered leukemia.
In 1850, he looked at some kid's blood
through a microscope
and said it was full of colorless,
granular, spheroidal globules.
but nobody knew that back then.
The reason it took so long
to diagnose children
was that they didn't used
to let kids into hospitals,
'cause they thought they carried
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