The Right to End

When death stops being inevitable, it becomes procedural. Medical science has extended the human body beyond it limit, erasing illness, aging, and most forms of natural death. Survival is no longer uncertain, but meaning is. In a society that treats immortality as progress, the question is no longer how long a person lives, but when an end is necessary. Theos is a doctor whose work inspires trust. His hands are steady, his decisions precise, his presence reassuring. Patients feel safe under his care. Institutions depend on his competence. No one questions the authority that gathers around him. Not even Theos himself. As expectations accumulate and responsibility mounting, the boundary between moral and belief begins to blur. What was once mercy was dictate. What was once unthinkable becomes practice. When death no longer arrives on its own, someone will decide how it enters. And Theos has never learned how to refuse it.