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How to Achieve Near-Immortality: Wear the Right Clothes

09.02.12

One chilly fall day in 2001 my brother and I were chain-
sawing fallen trees for firewood when the saw kicked on a knot and shot out of my brother’s hands and into his groin. I’ve survived a motorcycle accident, dog and snake bites, and the nuclear accident at
 Three Mile Island. A market not for police and rescue workers and other hero types, but for ordinary disaster magnets like me. And no need for them to be particularly stylish—you can’t take coolness with you, or take much advantage of it if you have been de-crotched. I’ve also had a gun pulled on me in anger, escaped two flash fires, and been knocked unconscious by fire-extinguishing gas while sitting in a fake space capsule. It took me 10 minutes to pry his hands off the area of injury so I could assess the damage, which turned out to be just an ugly gash in his jeans. (I’m not making any of this up. my editors wouldn’t let me. ). All of which leads me to conclude there is a market for clothes that are crash-bullet-blast-toxin-radiation-proof and that also monitor both the wearer and his environment for threats.

Source: Discover Magazine