Living Forever

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Time Created: 11:30 am

Length: Five minutes

Creator: Jacobs Fairly

I don't have a lot of time. They will break down the door at any minute.

Who, you ask? Well its people. I mean obviously it would be...but they are my friends, my family. How could they do this? Hunt me down like some wild animal. Oh yeah, its 'cause their minds couldn't cope with immortality. It's funny that isn't it? Centuries ago we strived for a way to stay young. We used plastic surgery and vitamins. Heck even that spiritual crap. But we did it didn't we? We found 'forever'.

And when that tiny laboratory in the centre of Manchester told us they had a way of stopping death, the media were in uproar. "It can't work" they said. It did though, those little shits prooved everyone wrong and the drug went public. At a price of course. You see the 'Forever Drug' - as it was called - stopped the aging gene, and would not allow our bodies to physically age. But our minds did.

Imagine that, a mind that has experienced centuries of change being stuck in the body of a twenty year old. Yeah, I guess your first thought would be, 'that's brilliant though'. I assume it would be at first if you could provide yourself with mental stimulus, but after living for five hundred years and doing everything you can think of, you might start to get a little bored.

The scientists against the drug said so. "Without mental stimulation we may get...sadistic" that's is what they said, even with the dramatic pause.

Everyone laughed at them, "how could we become sadistic, sadism is a trait of a psychopath! And do we look like psychopaths?"

The average person said, "no, of course not". I think even the psychopaths did. And everyone ignored the scientists statements and took the drug. In a couple of days it went global, first Britain then the rest of the world. Our country become rich of this crap. We were able to rid our society of everything from disease to crime.

The next two hundred years humanity lived in a utopia, with the phrase 'Living Forever' as it's slogan. And everything went wrong after that. It started of as small things: people jumping out of buildings, mass suicides etc. No one battered an eyelid. It was the norm in those days. People got bored of 'living forever' and decided to end it once and for all. There was a enough loved filled couples to replace the humans we lost in those incidents.

Then came the massacre in London. It was a mess, one man who was so bored decided to shoot at least fifty-five people before turning the gun on himself. That was before he shouted, "I don't want to live forever!". Unfortunately other people decided to copy and there was mass killings happening all over the world. Usually there would be three to four happening on a single day. The whole of England was on lock down and society was on the brink of collapse.

After these mass killings though, that was when everything went tits up. Because these sick bastards decided to team up. At one point they would roam the cities in their dozens, overwhelming the military and killing everyone in a particular area. Weirldy people would walk out of their homes and join in. I don't mean trained killers or the mentally insane, but normal people. Those that would have 9-5 mundane jobs, and a typical family. Heck even the children started joining in.

And it spread until the majority of the population were pulling society apart, piece by piece. Those that weren't going on an insane killing spree, were left asking why us? To be honest no one wanted to ask that questions, because everyone wanted to get the fuck out of there. No one could though. Why? Well the people weren't zombies, they could track you, hunt you down. Even play fucked up mind games with you.

Still people asked why. You want to know? Well those scientest I mentioned earlier were right. We, the humun race, can't stand boredom. Which I guess is true, being bored can sometimes be painful. But imagine that for centuries, it would drive the average joe mad, sadistic even. That it was happened to the majority, not all I admit. Some of us can find something to do with our forever time. I could, I went skydiving every day. Wasn't great for the heart.

Ha, I can hear them tearing down my door now. Funny that I ain't scared or anything. The whole 'they will tear me apart, while trying to eat me alive' doesn't bother me. Well, I guess that is the disadvantage of living forever.