[ WP ] Humanity has achieved immortality . Due to resource concerns everyone must submit to a council their chosen manner of death at 150 . The more amusing the death the longer the council lets you live .

Young shemp stood before the council awash in fear. He, at the tender young age of 150, had to come up with a routine so comical, so amusing that the esteemed council would see him fit to be granted the immortality they themselves had achieved. This would be no easy task. The esteemed council of three, the mighty Moe, the honorable Larry, Curly the wise, had practically invented the concept of slapstick humor, highest and most revered of all art forms. This had to be good. Shemp took a deep breath and launched into his routine, a series of prat falls and prop gags that ended with a grand finale of a piano being dropped on his head. Shemp gave out a sigh of relief, he had done all he could, it was in the councils hands now. They quickly deliberated and he anxiously awaited their answer. `` Close enough!'' proclaimed Moe. Shemp would live to see another day.
