You become so depressed when you outlive all your friends and loved ones you want to kill yourself... but can't. So you are doomed to live for eternity a horrible, lonely life.
I wish I had fire powers. Pyromania is genetic.
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"Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named . . . but a DYING culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."
-- Robert Heinlein in Friday
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