[ WP ] Everyone knows the exact time and date of their death . Your date has passed , but nothing happened .

I double and even triple checked the date I had been given the day I was born. I called my parents and even called the Federal Office Of Death to make sure. 
 
 `` F.O.O.D speaking, how may I help you today?'' She sounded friendly enough. I explained my situation to her and she laughed, insisting there must have been a mistake. `` I'm sure it was a typography error on your copy of the paper. Can you read me your identification number, please?'' I read it off and she had me wait a second as it processed. I nodded my head back and forth to the annoying little hold tune that played. `` Sir?'' she said as she took me off hold. She hesitated before continuing. `` You are correct, your date has passed...'' 
 
 I nodded dumbly to myself, glancing down at the paper that read last Friday's date. `` So what does that mean for me?'' 
 
 She cleared her throat before continuing. `` Well, sir, you have two options. You may request immediate termination, in which case we will reschedule your death. We can either let you know the date or surprise you.'' I shook my head, appalled at the option. 
 
 `` What's my other choice?'' 
 
 `` Well, sir... We do n't recommend the other one.'' 
 
 `` I want to hear it.'' 
 
 `` The other option, sir, is that you continue living without a specific termination date.'' I raised my eyebrows, surprised, although she could n't see me. 
 
 `` Why is that not recommended?'' 
 
 She cleared her throat again, starting slowly. `` Well, sir... You see, our printing system occasionally makes mistakes leading to incorrect dates printed, as I thought might have been your case. However, Central Universal Life Termination does not make mistakes. If your date has passed...'' 
 
 I interrupted her, thoroughly confused. `` My date has passed. Clearly they made a mistake.'' 
 
 `` No...'' she began awkwardly. `` What this often means is that you might be good as dead. You have nothing left to live for nothing of importance will happen in your life but you have crossed a threshold. You are nothing more than a burden to society and the Central Universal Life Termination group will dispatch their trainees to eliminate you... for practice. You are actually too insignificant for the Termination group to spend resources or trained employees on terminating you.'' My jaw dropped and I slammed the phone down, ending the call. I looked around at my empty apartment, trash littering the floor. The skeleton of my dead goldfish stared at me from the dirty fishbowl. *Too insignificant? * I clenched my jaw, grinding my teeth in anger before shaking my head to myself. 
 
 `` No,'' I said outloud, wondering if I qualified as crazy for talking to myself. There had to be something I could do to prove them wrong... Something to make myself significant. I grabbed my coat and tore out the door and for the first time in my miserable life, I felt something akin to determination. *I will do something. * 
 
 My phone rang as I stepped off the elevator on the ground floor. I answered curiously, not recognizing the number. `` Hello?'' 
 
 `` Your Termination request has been accepted. Your life will be terminated shortly. This can not be cancelled. Please hold to listen to this message again.'' 
 
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