Life

Senescence, the so-called cell death, is a process inherent to life, and not death. Furthermore, while the cells effectively cease their functions, they are not considered death by virtue of the overarching cosmic law that define life and death. How was it found out? Death left, making people incapable of dying, but that did nothing to prevent ageing and body decay.

A disease, not a boon

For a very long time, people thought that death was a disease to be eradicated, seeking a longer life at any price. Health was only second in face of desperation and thus the wealthiest lived far over a century in a vegetative state, only lucid enough to prevent others from shutting them off.

But now we can't deny the obvious: death was a sweet release, no matter how painful or scary it seemed. The real disease, the source of all of our pain, was life all along. Life is a cruel mistress, providing just what was required to keep us in its grasp, but nothing more. When suddenly we stopped dying, we thought that it was a boon. People crushed by a truck or shot in the head would stand back up with a slight pain erased by the adrenaline.

But a snapped neck does not fix itself, nor does an organ shredded by a bullet. The damage is permanent and there is no escape. This is no blessing, but a cruel twist of the fate. Life usually ends people in their 80, sometimes later. But by this point, most organs fail, cells are not renewed as fast as they should be. Given enough time, bodies can rot alive, leaving the victims with a creeping necrosis they can never soothe or cure.

There is no cure

Our best scientists, medical doctors, chemists and biologists alike, are hard at work to find a cure for life. All chemicals have been tried without success, so they are now creating them artificially. In the meantime, the rest of us lead the research through cruder means, a jerrycan in one hand, a match in the other.