End of Death

A collage of images during The End of Death

Erasmo Weedman

Kathleen Parsley

Charles Shepherd

United Nations

NSA

FBI

US Armed Forces

Armed Forces of Russia

Armed Forces of the European Union

Armed Forces of Japan

Armed Forces of Greater Korea

Armed Forces of Israel

Various law enforcement agencies

It goes by many names: the **Switch**, the *Global Cataclysm*, the *Day Death Died*, the **Great Reversal**, or the **End of Death**. Whatever it was, it had unimaginable consequences for the entirety of planet Earth. In the wake of the Great Reversal, all sentient life on Earth was forced into a state of immortality, suddenly unable to die. It was the most shocking event to occur in the history of planet Earth. For a long time, nobody knew what exactly caused the End of Death. What everyone knew, however, was that this event changed the planet and set it on a slow road to total collapse.

## How the End of Death impacted the world

### Genetic research

The End of Death created a moral panic regarding genetic engineering and genetic research, with many using the End of Death to propagate a narrative that genetic control is evil and that human beings are playing God by doing such a thing.

### Religion

With the End of Death, millions of people lost faith in various religions that taught an afterlife and began leaving said religions in droves, with about half of the global population becoming either atheist or Agnostic. Religions didn't go extinct, however; there is still half of humanity that still clings to their religious faith. During the middle part of the year 2021, however, the number of people identifying themselves as pagans skyrocketed, with many coming forward and accepting paganism, with some even concluding that Nature itself was some form of goddess that took away the ability to die as part of some mysterious scheme. By the year 2023, there were at least 3,797,000,000 confirmed converts to paganism worldwide.

### Crime

The End of Death really brought out the dark side in humanity, with criminals worldwide taking advantage of the End of Death to live out their most twisted fantasies.

### Aging

The End of Death led to the complete cessation of aging for anyone 30 years or older. Anyone younger than the age of 30 could still age as normal but once they hit a random point in their thirties, the aging process completely stopped. Anyone already older than thirty at the time of the end of death would stop aging past the current age they were at when the end of death began (ex: someone who is 37 at the time of the end of death would stop aging past that point for as long as death remained deactivated). For younger generations, the cut-off point was randomized; some stopped aging once they hit thirty years of age. Others stopped aging once they hit their late thirties and others stopped once they reached the mid-thirties.

### Animal behavior

The End of Death also caused an unusual increase in aggression within certain species of animals, causing a concerning increase in reports of unprovoked animal attacks on human beings. After analyzing reports and video footage of animal attacks on humans it was found that this increase in aggression only seemed to affect animals that have been known to attack humans, like bears, lions, mountain lions, crocodiles, etc. The first documented case of an unprovoked animal attack on humans happened during the spring of 2021, where Erasmo Weedman and a couple friends found themselves being attacked by an unusually aggressive bear that also menaced a group of hikers.

The next incident occurred two months later, in May; a group of Great White Sharks was observed savagely attacking a Blue Whale off the coast of California. That same month, more footage surfaced showing a scuba diver being attacked by a lionfish. The scuba-diver was taken to a hospital where it was found that he had enough venom to kill, but because death was turned off, he survived. In the summer of 2021, a young woman was attacked by a highly aggressive lion while trying to feed it. She was taken to the hospital, where she survived despite having been nearly eviscerated by the lion.