[ WP ] The cure for death is found . But die to the fear of overpopulation on earth , people are given a choice . Stay on earth and be mortal , or be cured and go on a deep space mission .

Cold. So cold. 
 
 At least the view was nice. 
 
 We drifted on in silence, my wife and I. Call it a clerical error, call it sabotage. It did n't really matter. Ground control did n't see the asteroid belt and neither did we until we struck it. Our ship was torn apart within minutes and both of us had been sucked out. The cosmic dust was our only other companion. Immortality seemed like the worst choice to make. They first few moments were the worst. First my lungs exploded with the force of a thousand hammers, hitting just the right nails, and all I could do was watch the same happen to her just seconds later. 
 
 I just kept staring at her. Her already pale skin wept as the bright reds of her wrinkled lips escaped their master. I remembered her walking out of the shower, just a towel wrapped around her. How she'd walk over to me, sleeping in and lean forward, brushing her speaking hair against my face as I smiled in my complacent sleep. The same hair that floated in every direction with us. I held her tighter and she held me the same. 
 
 I kissed her icy forehead as I saw the tears escape our eyes, clump together and drift away as aimlessly as us. 
 
 I tried to remember our time on earth. I remember her family on Christmas. Everyone one of them more dull than the next. I remember us running away close to midnight. Making our way to the park in the country side and lying down. Just looking in awe at the same stars that now mocked our immortality. Her smiling head against the night sky as she kissed me juxtaposed with my current view of her silently sobbing visage. 
 
 I kept trying to remember more. I remember a fight. We fought about this. We fought about immortality. She never wanted to become immortal and go into space. 
 
 In fact... 
 
 She did n't agree to it. I felt my mind betray me as her warmth faded away. I looked up at the galaxies swirling into the abyss. She left me. 
 
 Cold. So cold. 
 
 But at least the view was nice.
