This Is My Life

Yearn for immortality? Pine to be remembered till the last dingdong of doom? Want to be sure your memory remains green to every generation of your descendants? It's as easy as hifi. So writes Lester C. Worden in his book, A Living Legacy.

V.I.P.s have told their memoirs to tape for years, and had their major speeches recorded for posterity. But now "a voice from beyond death" can be everyone's. All that is needed is a tape recorder -- and Worden's book. A lifetime is meticulously arranged in sections ("The Color of Yesterday," "Your Birth and Before") to guide the subject down memory lane. He is encouraged to introduce a favorite record, or an old chum, but cautioned to avoid "controversial subjects such as politics, religion, family feuds and speeches to the jury." Worden's book costs $3, a tape recorder as little as $30. Immortality would be cheap at half the price.

You can see it now. The family gathered around the electronic hearth some evening in 2064, and Mother says: "Tonight, let's play Great-great-great-grandfather."

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