Mortality
Tonight, you can stop ageing.
You can still bleed. You can still suffer. You simply stop getting older. The treatment can be ended at any time.
Year 100
100
A hundred years pass. Almost everyone from your first life is gone.
Almost everyone who remembers your childhood from the outside is dead.
Year 300
300
Two centuries later, you fall in love with someone who refuses the treatment.
They refuse the treatment.
Year 500
500
Five hundred years pass. You can no longer keep every memory close.
Keeping everything makes the past heavier. Forgetting makes room for the present. What do you do?
Year 2,000
2,000
Two thousand years later, the person who accepted the offer would argue with you about almost everything.
Year 6,000
6,000
Six thousand years pass. It is getting harder to encounter something that feels new.
Novelty is still possible, but much of human life now feels like variation on themes you have seen before.
Year 10,000
Ten thousand years later, the exit is still available.
What finally outweighed another century?
Year 100
Love
Memory
Identity
Novelty
The Deathless Dilemma
A body can keep going while the person inside it keeps being replaced.
Languages change. Relationships end. Values shift. Memories blur. The body survives, while many versions of the person do not. Which losses still count as death to you?