[ WP ] You live on a world full of immortal beings . For the first time in the history of the world 's existence , somebody has died .

It was all over the news. `` The Woman that Would n't Wake'', `` Sleeping Beauty Come to Life'', the headlines all read. Physicians were baffled, and the rest of us? We had no idea what this meant. 
 
 They ran tests on the poor girl. No breath, no heartbeat. It was no illness that had ever been seen before. The case inspired me, in my last year of medical school. I was determined to find an answer. It was a challenge. 
 
 She was kept in a solitary room; the family's wishes. They were sparing no expense to find out what was wrong with their daughter. She had no history of illness; in fact, she was perfectly healthy. Aside from the fact that she had no pulse, or brain activity. It seemed as though she was just... gone. An empty shell. 
 
 Other physicians gave up the search early on, resigning the poor soul to sleep eternity away. I could not do that. She was so young. There are things you can only experience in the first hundred years, after all. Every century is irreplaceable. 
 
 But even I had to give up when we could tell that the tissue was wasting away on the child's small body. There was nothing that could be done. She would never wake up. 
 
 The only thing we could do was name the illness. And I called it: Death.
