A Risky Business

Seeing ghosts? Some have tried to turn this curse into something useful...

But still, it's a risky business...
Wait. Why not try to turn this curse into... a business?...

No, I don't mean (dead) Bruce Willis helping a (cursed) little boy...

Why not try working with doctors and surgeons? If they are using outdated science, the "cursed" person working with them might see ghosts -- the dead victims of outdated science. Turning the curse/gift into some cool detector of outdated science... Organ transplant medicine could be a great place to start. Scientific polemics around "brain death", organ trafficking worldwide, shortage of organ "donation", surgeons under pressure...

Then the unexpected can happen, like some unfortunate cursed woman meeting with a gorgeous "brain-dead" ghost (not so brain-dead, actually. He was a brilliant mathematician)... Hey, that poor woman may be cursed and miserable and not so good at handling rejection, but at least she gets to choose her Bruce Willis, right?

Images of medical history...someday ones from now will look just as crazy https://t.co/5AFLC0XuSL by @erinlschumaker pic.twitter.com/RQ4uKq22CJ

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 8, 2016

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/my-marriage-didnt-end-when-i-became-a-widow

Now this is something entirely different... The death of a young brain surgeon, his widow trying to find some rest on his grave, as she is in too much pain to be able to sleep... Would you say this woman is seeing a ghost? I don't think so. Seeing a ghost means you've never met this person before (which is aggravating the situation. Yup,there's a reason it's called a curse).

Burton's "Corpse Bride"

Looking for inspiration: go no further than @rocketgirlmd https://t.co/tzOf6MQacM + https://t.co/1AubKh34Hr wow pic.twitter.com/kU3e2wjJEc

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 7, 2016

Maybe some (dead) victims of outdated science and (dead) young and brilliant scientists will somehow meet and work together on some "mad science" project? I'm curious as to the outcome of this, especially in the context of high-speed internet ghosts and a new emerging religion... Jesus-CRISPR superstar...

I told you. It's a risky business. But isn't the goal of science to remind us that no fate is destined to inevitably befall us (entropy, disease, rejection, unemployment)?

Science is averting fatalities...