[ WP ] Humans unlock the secret to Immortality/Eternal Youth . You learn the horrible truth behind why we evolved mortal .

Immortality. Sounds good, does n't it? Never grow old, never die of old age, and with a respectable immune system even disease wo n't get you. 
 
 The truth is less beautiful. 
 
 See, the mind is like a computer. We are essentially biological equivalents to self-evolving artificial intelligence. The brain constantly updates itself throughout life. 
 
 The world goes faster and faster as your brain processes it better. In many old people this comes across as senility, as they give up trying to get their bodies to keep up with their minds. 
 
 Back in Biblical times, if you believe in such, that was the equalizer. Even when man lived for hundreds of years his body still wound up losing the race with his mind. When his old body could no longer fathom movement it just quit. 
 
 God's design. 
 
 Turns out there's a reason for death. Your mind ultimately needs it. We're just now putting the pieces together. 
 
 We're a society collapsing in on our immortal selves. 
 
 Part of what made aging work was that the body could n't keep up with the mind. So people learned to deal with life slowly as their minds overworked themselves to death. 
 
 No one alive has a slow body anymore. As our minds race faster so do we. We just keep going and going like caffeinated hamsters on a wheel. Most of us experience all life has to offer us in under three-hundred years. 
 
 Then we go insane. Our minds race faster and faster but we just give up. Not because we have to, as nature intended, but because we simply burn out. 
 
 Most of the world is now burnt out. Many find some way to take their own lives. The rest go into a non-responsive stupor, like the worst kind of druggie. By the thousand year mark their brains fry themselves out from overactivity. 
 
 They are left as comatose shells, eternally alive but with no chance of ever regaining consciousness. This is the ultimate fate of the immortal. 
 
 Scientists are looking for ways to slow or halt neural growth. It's hopeless. I know they'll never find the cure. There is no cure for nature. 
 
 Only an end to a self-inflicted hell... 
 
 *BANG! *
