[ WP ] At the age of 18 , everyone picks an unlikely life event . They will be reborn at 18 every time they die until that event happens . After that , death is permanent .

If they had just done it on a different day, that would have been fine. If I did n't end up getting belligerently drunk the morning of my Choosing, that probably would have worked for the best. No, that would be too easy. I had been preparing for that question my entire, pre-adult life. I took courses, did research on life expectancy, learned post-graduate level statistics just to answer one question. When some dude in a suit with bad breath and a worse disposition comes to your house and prompts you for some life event to which you will meet your final death. I had it planned out perfectly! I developed a paragraph long response detailing the exact coordinates of the planets in the solar system on a day 250 years from the day I became 18. It was perfect. Drunk me developed a moral dilemma with this system of false reincarnation, and decided to tell the suit-dude how big of an issue it was. 
 
 So here I am, 3500 years later. I have lived through natural disasters, attempted genocide, mass apathy and more. I have sat and rot over repeated deaths due to radiation poisoning, suffocation, and total evaporation all from the same nuclear war. I have been immobilized by the amount of people stuck in place in a busy freeway due to over population. I have friends who were taken by gangs and shot to space and continue waking up every twenty four hours, just to die again. 
 
 All I wanted to make a jest. An outlandish point that was so statistically unlikely that no inspector would accept it, and would be forced into existential crises and denial of the system. But no, I got the hardass that day. And when I said I wanted a pack of totally red skittles, he laughed and left. They do n't even make skittles anymore.
