The Lazarus Syndrome
Description
A business begins firing its older workers to transform into a hip, young company. Worried about losing his job, a fifty-year-old manager tries to act like a young person, even though his doctor and wife warn him not to strain his weak heart.
A company aggressively starts retrenching the older employees in their roster in order to reinvent the organization into a young and edgy business. Fearing for his job, a fifty-year old manager starts acting youthful despite his doctor and wife's warnings not to overtax his already ailing heart.
Perry Marston, whose company has been swallowed up by a merger, now works for a man who’s 24 years his junior. Against the advice of wife and doctor, Marston keeps accepting challenges at tennis from the younger man, until he suffers a heart attack on the court. Despite the efforts of his doctor, Marston is declared clinically dead for a few moments. However, after he is brought back to life he begins to wonder whether he was not better off dead.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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