[ WP ] Suddenly , everyone on Earth becomes immortal , free from physical injury or disease . Except for one person .

People really went `` sky-diving'' now. 10,000 feet. No parachute. It was fun the first few times. Then it started to get boring. Sure, the view is nice, but the thrill was gone. Where's the fun in jumping out of a perfectly good airplane if you ca n't die? I kept doing it just because he wanted to. He still got a kick out of it. I think on some level he knew it was n't as fun for me anymore, but he would ask every weekend and I would oblige. How could I refuse? After all, he only had so long to live. He started to get into other extreme sports too. The equipment was cheap because everyone had lost interest. Base jumping, those winged squirrel suits, wind surfing, all that crap. He enjoyed it and I did n't mind, I loved spending time with him even if the activities had lost their appeal. I never worried until he broke an arm while bunging jumping. It was n't an equipment issue -- we'd had plenty of practice setting up the cord at that point. He was just _old_. And frail. I told him maybe 55 was n't a good age to be leaping from national monuments. He reluctantly agreed and I thought that was the end of it. I was buying two classical guitars for us to learn on together when I got the call. Dead. Biking in the grand canyon. They told me there was still a smile on his face. I tried to bury my grief in mastering Asturias in G minor, but it did n't do any good. I even went skydiving a few times, but that only made it worse because I realized the fact that it wo n't hurt when I hit the ground did n't freak me out anymore. Surely there was a limit to my immortality. The next week, I asked the pilot to go higher. He went up an extra ten thousand feet and then told me his bird did n't go any higher. I knew it was n't enough, but I jumped anyway because it was the fastest way down. I even made sure I landed headfirst. Nothing. I cried that night. Ironic that the only man in the human race who could die was the only one who could live. 
 
 EDIT: Tense agreement.
