Sam Adams New Body

New Body technology revolution

Sam Adams’s New Body

         Jake Lee was a scientist at the University of California who invented what became known as the Second Life body, changing the world one new life at a time. His best friend, Sam Adams, and his wife chose new bodies when he was 75, and she was 71, and were among the pioneers of the new procedure.

         They had options to change their bodies and made their choices.

         He chose to be 6’4”, with his learning disability cured, perfect vision, perfect hearing, and a perfect athletic body. His arthritis and fibromyalgia were fixed, of course.

         She chose to be 5'10", with a perfect body, her chronic disk pain and hernia cured, her lifelong food allergies gone, and perfect hearing, vision, smell, etc.

         After a week undergoing the procedures, they woke up in their new bodies. A side effect of the procedure was a tremendous increase in libido.

         They both decided that they wanted to go into law and open their own law practice. They went back to college, enrolling in the University of Pacific, Sam’s alma mater, for undergraduate pre-law, followed by law school, using their savings leftover from the procedure to pay for college and law school.

         They attended law school, enjoyed a great career, and had two children. Childbirth was becoming rare in this new world. Most people had designer children who were perfect in every way, most of whom were born in laboratories and delivered after birth.
The technology consisted of growing a clone of the original person in a lab—it took about a year to create a 20-year-old clone, and about two weeks to transfer consciousness. The old body naturally died and was cremated, with ashes returned to the recipients to hold a ceremony or not, depending on personal preferences. Many opted not to do so, and the ashes were destroyed.

         The U.S. led the way in regulating the new technology, passing a new law called the Second Life Bill, which set regulations to govern the procedure. Sam Adams, as one of the first recipients, had become a world expert and helped draft the new legislation along with his friend, Jake Lee. His testimony before Congress set the tone of the new world-wide regulations.

         The UN followed suit with a convention requiring every country to adopt similar rules as the US Second Life Bill, and requiring a fund be set up to fund procedures for poor people the idea being no one should be denied a second life on the basic of poverty but allowing it to be banned for felons convicted of violence or serious crimes.

         The procedure was straightforward. At age 69, one would contact the Social Security Administration and confirm their desire to get a new body or opt out and receive traditional retirement benefits until natural death. There would be about a year before the new body would be ready, and the operation to transfer consciousness could take place.

         For the most part, those who wanted a new body had to be age 70 and agree to forgo their Social Security and other pension income and pay a significant tax for the new body. There were some exceptions; those suffering from severe medical conditions or disabilities could apply for a waiver of the age limit, and wealthy individuals could opt to self-finance the procedure after age 45. Most people opted to wait until they reached age 70.

         The Social Security taxes raised during a normal working life would pay for the new body and provide a scholarship fund for retraining after obtaining the new body.

         Recipients would receive a new body at the chronological age of 70 and another new body at age 140, working 70 years each time and becoming eligible for a second new life.

         They were expected to go back to college and retrain for a new career. Most people’s accounts contained leftover funds to provide full scholarships for re-training, and public service would be a paid job.

         On-the-job training courses would also be fully transferable as college credits, so most people would spend three years in college and three years in service, starting their new careers at age 26 in their new bodies.

         They were expected to serve three years doing public service in their 20s after college before returning to work. Those from wealthy families were expected to work for the family company or foundation, contributing to society after receiving the gift of a new body.
Once employed, recipients would pay Social Security and Medicare costs until reaching age 70, at which point they had the option of getting another new body or retiring and living a traditional old age. Almost no one chose the latter, except for some religious believers. The exceptions were violent criminals convicted of felonies, who were ineligible to legally obtain a new body, although there were some people who opted to self-finance the procedure as a workaround. Some people also opted out due to religious objections.

         Those unable to pay for the procedure out of pensions and savings were eligible for new bodies on a scholarship basis per the new UN treaty requirements. Scholarship recipients were obligated to begin public service work immediately and serve five years instead of three.
Recipients could choose different bodies, or opt for a perfect body based on their old body. New bodies were perfect, with perfect vision, hearing, smell, and athletic build, with no defects and free of potential disease. Options included changing gender, gender preference, height (plus or minus three inches), and weight (plus or minus 50 pounds), but skin color and basic racial characteristics could not be changed; eye color and hair color could be changed. Surprisingly, changing genders became a popular option.

         Many diseases were simply cured by transferring consciousness to a new body using the medical exception, so chronic diseases, including cancer, became very rare.

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