elimination

It's the year 2525 and doctors have eradicated every last disease from cancer to the common cold. Still, no one lives past age 18. Seven knows just about everything there is to know about human history. She knows that it was in 1966 that the New York Times printed the headline God is Dead in response to a new age of secularism. She knows that it was in 2083 that the BBC printed the headline God is Dead after the dam holding London back from the rising Atlantic crumbled, drowning four million people. She knows about the trenches in the WWI, the blitzkrieg bombings in WWII, and the nuclear targeting of tectonic fault lines in WWIII. What she doesn't know is anything about the world she lives in. She doesn't know why she is required to run 18 miles a day. She doesn't know why no one is allowed to eat solid food. She doesn't know why the only safe happiness comes in the form of a little pink pill. She doesn't know why every student she has ever known has died at age 18. All Seven knows are facts, and the fact is, she's running out of time.