[ WP ] A few centuries in the future , immortality has been achieved . You are the last living mortal , and your final hours are coming near . Describe your end .

Dear Protestors; 
 There are two kinds of immortality. You can live forever or you can be remembered forever. Living forever, everyone ’ s doing that these days. Me? I ’ m nothing. I don ’ t want to live forever. I wouldn ’ t be anything special if I continued to live, but as the last mortal to die of natural causes, that ’ s at least something. Some reason to be famous to be remembered. I ’ m Eighty-Five, I ’ ve lived a long natural life and I am all that ’ s left of the natural order. I ’ m going to sit here and wait to die. It ’ s been Thirty-Seven years since the last mortal died and I ’ m going to take his spot as the last mortal in the history books. Remember this. Not only because I am the last mortal to die of natural causes, but also one of the first to fight for my right to die! You may be happy now, the world isn ’ t perfect yet, someday I hope it is, and I hope that you ’ ll never feel the way I do. Things change, the world changes, people change, but Death is eternal. We still haven ’ t solved world hunger or even the pollution problem caused hundreds of years ago. We ’ re just now being able to attempt colonization, but that ’ s only because we live long enough to travel those distances. I am amazed at what we have become as a species, but I am nothing special. I don ’ t wish to colonize new worlds and I ’ m not intelligent enough to discover the secrets of the universe, even though that has not stopped most of you. I desperately hope you do not resort to viol… 
 
 [ Mr. Peterson was pronounced dead with pen in hand at 2:37pm after the nurse found him during her rounds, a second letter on the desk asked that this letter be disseminated among the people demanding that we force immortality upon him. ] 

