I see my family, i hear them cry, i hear them pledge to god and i saw myself dying...

As i was lying in my hospital bed, the machines that were keeping me alive grew quieter every second

and so were i growing weaker alongside it.

I lived a good life without any regrets, i grew up in a loving family with 2 brothers, i was the second child my mom had.

with the time i grew older from a child to teen, i made my first friends in school and even kept some of my best friends til the end,

over the years i experienced my first love... and my first let down, it was one-sided and childish but nonetheless was it my first one.

The years were passing by ever faster with each new year i lived, got out of school with 18, found a job immediately and soon

i found my wife and got 2 kids on my own few years after.

But everything changed one day when i collapsed at our house.

I was brought into the hospital and were there for several days til they came to me and told me i had cancer...

They proposed that i undergo some treatment and so i did.

It was harsh and with the love of my family and friends i made it forward, but life doesn't always go as expected.

The cancer got worse with time and i was feeling myself slowly dying.

Over the years in treatment i questioned myself more and more what life is, but as expected no one could give me a definite answer.

Some would believe in a god, some hoped for a new life and many more had their own believes.

I was jealous of such who could believe with their very heart as i couldn't do it.

It wasnt that i don't want to or never had tried it, but you can't lie to yourself.

Some years passed and i could only life my life hanging on machines, but this wasnt life for me.

The days were passing by, i saw my kids grow into men without me in the years, once they had visited me each day, but now i could be happy if i see

them a couple of times a year.

As my condition worsened and the doctors told me i may die any day now.

And so i decided to choose my own death, to die in the presence of my family.

They cries are growing weaker, the light fades slowly into nothingness, my eyes pressed out a last tear.

....I love you all....

My mind goes blank and i ceased to exist.

Or so i thought.

I felt my body again, stronger than it was before.

I opened my eyes and found myself in a bright room.

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"Sir how do you feel?" A female woman did came to my side "was it a success?"

"It was... it was absolute perfect" i replied while getting up.

My mind was burning, burning from experienced of 2 life's my real one and the one of the simulation.

The real me was a Scientist and i live in a time far apart from yours.

In my time the universe was dying and alongside was every living creature.

"The test was a success, proceed to active all chambers in 1 hour, this is the last peace we can give the last of humanity"

I stood there and was looking at what we all had created and what was soon to be lost for eternity.

I was walking a small path to the control room and was thinking by myself how humanity fought and lost.

At first the humans grew smarter into an intelligent life species and with time there was the will to explore the world.

They had successfully conquered every continent on the first world but the thirst after the unknown wasnt stilled, the humans

wanted to explore the space going from small tours through the home system to colonizing every habitable planet in the observable universe.

In our prime we were a type 3 civilisation with no worries at all, but everyone forgot that there would be an end to all energy sources.

Most labeled it as, " it will be of billions of years into the future we will manage it somehow" well we didn't.

And now im standing here on the last manned Spaceship with countless of lives, this was the last resort humanity had.

Over millenia after we realised we could do nothing to safe the universe we had decided to build a giant spaceship.

With billions of citizens and stored as many energy in here as possible and now was the time we would activate the last simulation.

It will allow us to forget everything and hundreds of lives as we want it, til in the near future everything would die without even realising it.

And so i was standing here, and looked out of the window and saw the black universe, nothing else could be seen.

Time flew by quickly and the hour was almost up, i gone back past my team, looked them into the eyes and said to them "Let us hope that there is a god and now have a good night everyone".

I walked into my chamber and lied down on bed as i connected myself to the server.

Good Night everyone....

And so I opened my eyes ones again.