Writing Prompt The Heavens' Suicide Prevention Hotline

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Want to die? The heavens won't let you. A thousand gods ready to take your call, immortal alchemists to provide aid, a hundred fairies to awaken your desi... cough... will to live.
Only... I did not call this hotline, why won't the heavens let me die?

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Day 263 of not being able to die.

This morning I blended glass and poison with my breakfast. The suffering you would expect never came. Moreover, the heavens made that death smoothie taste delicious.

I went for a run after that. That is, I tried to run off the nearby cliff. You ever see those cartoons where the silly characters run in the air? That was me, but when I looked down, I didn't fall. I floated down slowly, until I felt the serene water on my feet.

Arriving at the river, I thought of drowning myself, but it seemed I could stay under water endlessly. Even my clothes weren't wet!

I tried running into truck kun after that, but when it rolled over me, I felt no pain, and I was still alive.

The final attempt today was me stabbing myself with a knife. Normally, you would expect it to go through your skin, but the thing shattered on impact.

Every night I have to listen to these gods complain on the hotline. They tell me to treasure life, so I quickly hang up the phone.

"Ah, hopefully tomorrow...I can find my eternal rest."
 

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Only... I did not call this hotline, why won't the heavens let me die?
They harden in response to physical trauma.
 

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Day 263 of not being able to die.

This morning I blended glass and poison with my breakfast. The suffering you would expect never came. Moreover, the heavens made that death smoothie taste delicious.

I went for a run after that. That is, I tried to run off the nearby cliff. You ever see those cartoons where the silly characters run in the air? That was me, but when I looked down, I didn't fall. I floated down slowly, until I felt the serene water on my feet.

Arriving at the river, I thought of drowning myself, but it seemed I could stay under water endlessly. Even my clothes weren't wet!

I tried running into truck kun after that, but when it rolled over me, I felt no pain, and I was still alive.

The final attempt today was me stabbing myself with a knife. Normally, you would expect it to go through your skin, but the thing shattered on impact.

Every night I have to listen to these gods complain on the hotline. They tell me to treasure life, so I quickly hang up the phone.

"Ah, hopefully tomorrow...I can find my eternal rest."
That honestly sounds pleasant, they're basically doing anything they can to make life fun while also keeping you from dying.
 
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