People are all born in much the same manner, however there are myriad ways lives end and they cover the full spectrum of decency and lack thereof. Human kind moves forward towards the future as a small number of dedicated people monitor The Model which occasionally updates itself. There are those few who fervently believe The Model delivers credible periodic prescient depictions of the human timeline. The end point moves from update to update, but it is always there, two or three generations ahead, like a cold tombstone on which nobody would be left to scratch an epitaph.