One Night at Mercy story
An up-and-coming medical doctor suffering from severe headaches encounters a suicidal patient claiming to be Death looking to take a break from his life's work. Directed by: Peter O'Fallon. Story by: Christopher Mack.
9 total · 1 choice · 3 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| death incarnate | choice | Death temporarily quit his job. |
| depression | major | A dark and brooding Death was depressed from 4.5 billion years of reaping souls. Dr. Jay Ferguson diagnosed Death as being depressed. |
| medical occupation | major | The story concerned Dr. Jay Ferguson at work in his hospital. |
| the flip side of immortality | major | Death was depressed, attempted suicide, and quit his job because he had had enough of eternity - presumably either because of boredom or the toll that 4.5 billion years of reaping souls might take on a being. |
| be careful what you wish for | minor | Jay longed for a world without dying but found that it was not, in fact, a good world. |
| human overpopulation | minor | As no one died anymore, Jay extrapolated that there would be overpopulation. |
| mother and son | minor | Jay spoke to his mother in a vision of her on her deathbed. |
| suicide | minor | Death tried to hang himself. |
| the plague | minor | Death spoke of the Black Death spreading across Europe in the 14th century. |