[ WP ] Humans have decided to commit mass suicide in an altruist act to save the universe .

Humans had conquered nature. In the early history of mankind, humans were always deeply worried with the depleting resources in their home planet. But such trivial concern became obsolete when they invented the warp technology. Even the rarest minerals in the farthest corner of the galaxy were just mere steps away from their home planet Earth. Humans flourished and prevailed. Many historians pinpoint the invention of the warp tech as the true beginning of the modern humanity. The concepts of war and famine were forgotten as nearly infinite amount of resources brought an abrupt end to conflicts and tragedies. But, nearly infinite. Not infinite. 
 
 `` What do you mean, the time is running out, Doctor? I thought we had three billion years worth of essential resources left for all of the mankind. And that's just in our galaxy.'' Asked the man in a black suit. Doctor Gabrinski puffed his oaken pipe and rested his chin on his hand. The doctor's eyes were distant and unfocused. The man in the black suit slammed the desk with both of his palms. `` Doctor, please do explain.'' He commanded. 
 
 Doctor Gabrinski sighed and cleared his throat. `` Mr. President, I am certain you're a busy man... I am honored by your presence. But here, instead I must first ask you: Does the name Dorothy Report sound familiar to you, sir?'' Doctor Gabrinski leaned back onto his chair and placed his oaken pipe between his thin lips again. The name indeed rang a bell to President Clayton. A gynecologist nurse named Dorothy Simmons was curious why she was seeing more and more children with mental handicaps. So, she started to gather the data of newborns from all around the world and deduced that the number of mentally challenged newborns was steadily rising. As far as President Clayton recalled, he was briefed that the cause of the rising number of mentally challenged newborns was in the development of the medicinal field. Mothers became a bit too healthy with the advanced quantum medicines, and thus was able to bear fetuses which should have been miscarried under normal conditions. President Clayton nodded and replied: `` Yes, I do know about it. The rising number of the mentally challenged newborns. The advanced medicine brought an undesirable consequence. What about it?'' 
 
 Doctor Gabrinski scoffed at the President. `` No, sir. It was not the medicine.'' Doctor puffed his oaken pipe one more time, and turned his electric wheelchair toward the window of the office. The sun was hanging on the horizon, and the soft orange twilight lights dug under the deep furrows of Doctor Gabrinski's tired and aged face. President Clayton wanted to rush the doctor to say whatever it was he wanted to say, but he realized the troubled and chocked breathing of Doctor Gabrinski. Something was bearing a heavy weight on him, and it was apparent that the doctor needed some time to take composure before dropping the truth. President Clayton stood beside the wheelchair and watched the sun set. 
 
 `` As for your question earlier... Mr. President.'' Doctor Gabrinski began speaking. `` Yes, we the mankind have enough materialistic resources to provide us for the next three billion years as suggested by Doctor Sakaguchi. And I do not doubt that he's wrong. I know him, and he's as honest and as diligent as Professor Laurence... Oh, we both were his students. However, as I see it now, one essential resource was omitted from Sakaguchi's research. The one essential resource that we all need to subsist, and the one essential resource that's rapidly running out from our hands.'' 
 
 `` And what is that?'' President Clayton interrupted. 
 
 `` Souls,'' said Doctor Gabrinski. President Clayton frowned and looked down onto Doctor Gabrinski. He wanted to say that he had no time for nonsense, but there was an earnest sorrow in the doctor's eyes that the president simply lost what he was to say. Doctor Gabrinski continued on with his explanation. According to his new discovery, there's a finite amount of souls available in the world. Doctor Gabrinski compared the depleting nature of souls to a pool with millions of hoses sucking its content out. He explained that there maybe an occasional rain to fill the lake back, but there simply are too many hoses. In fact, the doctor claimed that the humanity hoarded the entire resource of souls in the universe for themselves, so there was no intelligent life outside the planet Earth. The doctor went on to talk passionately that soon, the souls of living man, adults, not only newborns, would be affected too, and the adults would lose their intelligent consciousness too. Which, in reality, was happening as they were speaking to each other, Doctor Gabrinski added. More and more people scoring abnormally low on the IQ tests. More and more psychopaths in the penitentiary. And more and more people dreaming less and less. Doctor Gabrinski theorized that the humanity would soon be extinguished of their intelligence in the great drought of souls, and the humans would soon be indistinguishable from the apes. 
 
 The colors flushed from President Clayton's face. He had felt it too, the vanishing of dreams. He thought he was getting older, but this theory explained the strange decadence of the collective conscious of the mankind that was occurring in his terms. `` What can we do?'' President Clayton asked. 
 
 `` There's one thing we can do....'' Doctor Gabrinski mumbled. `` But it's too terrible.'' 
 
 But nothing was too terrible compared to the inevitable downfall of the mankind. 

