[ WP ] It 's the future , and people no longer die from aging . Barring accidents and murders , death is now a choice . Today , you 're attending a funeral , because last week , your best friend for hundreds of years , had chosen just that .

In my time I had seen many changes. I had witnessed wars and death, but also the start of a new life. I saw the rise and fall of the fourth Reich, and the start of this new eternal world order. And through all of it, I had my friend by my side, my closest friend and my spouse for these two centuries. 
 
 This day marks the end of mine, and the first of memory. We had seen the destruction from the third world war, and the new life and development to come from it. We served together in the reconstruction lab that discovered the DNA contributor that would continue to allow for this new stage and evolution of life. Together, with our comrades, we saw an end to overpopulation, poverty, illness, and even death. Together we gave birth to new innovation, a rise in intellect, and a drive to explore new worlds of studies. We built this new world order, this utopia. 
 
 Then, they left. Not physically, not even emotionally, but physically. We had always talked about the concept of life after death, and death itself being natural, but we never thought of acting on it, or at least I never thought of it. There was a note written on a pad beside their body, and they had left a vial of the antiserum we had developed those many decades ago. The note read as follows, 
 
 Dearest friend, 
 It has come to my time. I CHOSE THIS. Just as we chose to end the necessity of death. I find myself in a lull in life and development that comes with the boredom of an unending life. There is a whole new world that we have failed to explore. The possibility of a life after, the possibility of experiencing true nothingness, true PEACE. As I have taken the serum, I only have a few moments left, and with them I express the sorrow of parting, yet the hope that you will continue until you too come to a point of end. I bid you peace and hope for the future we made together. I leave behind the remaining serum for you when you decide to join me once again. 
 
 In deepest love, 
 _____ 
 
 And that was it. They could n't even finish the signature. The pen still in their hand. After looking back at the traditions of the funeral, we determined the best form to rest their body. An open-casket funeral that was a brief recounting of the life and experiences of my friend, and following the crematory that had been cold for so many years began to warm up. As I waited for it to get to the burning temperature, and took out the vial my friend had left. I downed the contents and climbed onto the pallet with them. As I begin to fade I write these events down as a final testament. Before I go dark I leave this world in mind and body with these last words. 
 
 `` The time we do have, even infinite, is best used to advance the quality of life for humanity, and the ones we love.''
