The short story “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, by Kurt Vonnegut connects to the song Forever Young, by Marian Gold, . In the short story, the Schwartz family have been living together for a long time. They have a sort of potion that allows people to stop aging and stay the way that they are for as long as they want. In the song a line goes, “ youth is like diamonds in the sun, and diamonds are forever young.” This relates to the story because this potion is keeping the family young and healthy. Another line from the song that can connect to the story is, “heaven can wait, we're only watching the skies.” Lou and Em Schwartz are “young” compared to a lot of people that are living on Earth. In the beginning of the story they are standing out on a balcony and Em said “Sometimes I wish folks just up and died regular as clockwork, without anything to say about it, instead of deciding themselves how long they’re going to stay around.” She is pretty much saying that once people have the power of living forever they realize that maybe they don’t need it and living knowing that one day they will die is a better way to live.
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