Your body still feels pain. You can still be injured. But age itself stops killing you. You can end the treatment whenever you want.
Year 100
100
The first life is gone.
Almost everyone who remembers your childhood from the outside is dead.
Year 300
300
You fall in love with someone mortal.
They refuse the treatment.
Year 500
500
Your memory has become crowded.
Year 2,000
2,000
The original person would barely recognise your values.
Year 6,000
6,000
You have become difficult to surprise.
Novelty is still possible, but much of human life now feels like variation on themes you have seen before.
Year 10,000
The contract is still open.
What finally outweighed another century?
Year 100
Love
Memory
Identity
Novelty
The Deathless Dilemma
A body can keep going while the person inside it keeps being replaced.
The first language dies. The first relationships die. Values die. Names die. Memories blur. Immortality becomes less about defeating death and more about deciding which kinds of disappearance still count as survival.