THE LAST NEWS!
Teófilo Huerta
The scientists, the monks and the man generally, did not explain the causes of so singular phenomenon that affected all the Earth and put in danger the life of its inhabitants, their stability, its congruent ecological balance and its capacity to shelter so many beings.
The fact happened
suddenly in all the countries, in by day in others at night. The news
was begun to spread and merely seemed local, because people, tired to
read, to hear and to see information on the wars of the Middle East
and Central America, the threats of a radioactive war, the rises in
the interest rates for the debts of the underdeveloped countries, the
coup d'etats and the foreign intervention, did not give credit to the
holders of newspapers of that day: “NOBODY DIED YESTERDAY! ”,
“NO ACCIDENT NOR DEATH”; without lacking those headed
ingenious: “PAYABLE THANATOS”, “THE SKINNY TILICA
AND OF VACATIONS”.
Resemblance
done yes was the news, by everything what of newness it contained.
The wireless and televising reporters extended the information,
before an expectant and surprised public.
- “Confirmed -
the charismatic one said and reliable speaker, yesterday did not
report any homicide, suicide nor imprudent accident in delegations or
courts… Our reporters at this moment realise a diligent
investigation in all the funeral wakes and hospitals, then,
apparently, did not die either yesterday ill serious”.
In
the offices, in the schools, the coffees and the neighbourhoods, all
world commented the event, but in a calm atmosphere, since it was
afraid to listen to in few hours the same news of always. The event
was certainly considered extraordinary, but after all fleeting.
Nevertheless, the
public found out more reports on the subject. To wherever the needle
of the radius or the selector of channels of the television moved,
the journalists gave to details del that already was considered
everything a phenomenon.
-
“We faced a fact without precedents, are already 48 hours
without a death is registered, not only in our country, because
according to cables of the international agencies, this one is a
world-wide case”.
- “This is
something unusual, the hospitals begin to remain empty, because the
patients heal miraculously and in the last hours a cold is not
registered nor, nor a diarrhoea”.
-
“The News of last hour: the absence of deaths is not only
restricted to a powerful one and mysterious capacity of the organism
to regenerate its functions in the case of which they were ill and to
avoid the entrance of virus in the case of the healthy ones, no, most
incredible is than the human being has become invulnerable to the
accidents and the bullets in agreement with the last information of
our reporters”.
-
“From kilometer 25 of the Mexico-Cuernavaca highway we
communicated to them on the violent shock between two buses of
passengers in who the vehicles were practically exhausted, but their
occupants are unharmed, I repeat, the occupants of both buses that
finish hitting are unharmed”.
On the other hand,
the journalistic companies began to have a great height; special
editions were thrown that were sold in enormous amounts. The headed
ones continued being extremely showy: “WORLD-WIDE EUPHORIA”,
“WE ARE IMMORTAL! ”, “ONLY LACK THAT REVIVES
DEADS”.
A celebration atmosphere arose in all the homes, in many of them was authentic row. Happiest they were those than in a pair of minutes they left the incurable sanatoriums where they were dealed with the evils of the heart, the kidneys, the vesicle; it seemed that finally the cancer and AIDS had been defeated. Also they were happy those that in spite of being run over, streamlinings, navajeados, hanged people and drowned, were entirely healthy.
The joy was almost
general, even those that had not crossed by danger some felt like
insurances of which nothing would happen to them. The children played
without getting tired and repeated the phrases of the adults: “we
are not going to die, we are not going to die”. The young
people drained vinaterías materially and besides emborrachar
itself profusely (the crude ones had disappeared), they sprinkled the
content of the bottles on his hair. Old, the stupefied ones and
injected of energy, danced, sang and they did not stop of platicar in
the long term about his projects.
-
We have so many years Juventino ahead - a viejecita said between
sighs.
- So many nonMariquita, we have all, every year ahead!
- It is Juventino truth, it was going who it to say truth?
- Because you say Mariquita, now we are all those years old and we have recovered strength, we could be very happy together…
- Ah that gift Juventino, does not cause that me sonroje!
Men and women
celebrated veiled after veiled their immortality, drunk of happiness
broke calendars they sent and them to the wind, others, safe of the
eternal prosperity its businesses dared to give tickets to the
almoners that not yet guessed right to define their situation,
because in spite of having guaranteed its health, they did not stop
suffering the indifference of the society.
More the
contentments, without fear some, rose the stop of the buildings to
throw themselves time and time again. All the sites were turned into
true centers of varieties, in the churches the faithfuls even praised
with shouts to God, in spite of the prudence that the parents
invoked.
Although in the news
programmes and special programs one was to give an explanation to the
phenomenon, to people to only it interested him to enjoy his new
condition and not even it gave credit to the rumors that this outside
possible one.
-
“Some scientists of Massachussets - the speakers aimed think
that the present phenomenon of survival can be bound to the existence
of chemical substances until now strangers, given off with the recent
birth of the volcano Trainee in Seville…
“Another
one of the theories is the one that maintain specialists of Moscow,
whom attribute the existence of the phenomenon to a variation of the
Earth orbit, caused perhaps by the interferences of so many space
satellites…
“On
the other hand, Its Sanctity declared in the Vatican before a
multitude of faithfuls, who today like yesterday, whoever they are
the material conditions that subsist, it is not necessary to let
itself touch by the worldly things that offer a relative happiness to
us and that, first of all, more than to celebrate a presumed
immortality of the body, it is necessary to worry about the salvation
of the soul…
“As
much the scientists as the Pope, have their reserves about which this
phenomenon is indeed perennial”.
Nevertheless, soon
conducts began to pronounce themselves that nobody had anticipated
and that caused serious problems to the authorities of each country,
each region, each town.
The doctors were in
favor desperate of not being able to take care of neither a wound,
nor a headache, not even a fracture; the human organism had become
perfect. In these conditions, some doctors preferred to dedicate
themselves solely to childbirths, whereas others tried to carry out
different activities, just like the employees, managers and owners of
funeral wakes and pantheons. Even many of the new and luxurious
cemeteries, became clubs of golf and deprived recreational
centers.
The
companies of life insurances no longer had clients and suffered
bankruptcies just as many pharmaceutical laboratories. On the other
hand, the police worked extra hours to track and to catch thieves
who, trusting in not becoming assassins, only forced to their prey by
the force, to give their purses, portfolios and jewels.
In
agreement they spent the weeks, the situation became more
complicated. Many jerarcas politicians, embarrassed by the unusual
presence of the phenomenon, preferred to make an indefinite truce in
the battlefields. However, other leaders with their expansionistic
mentality, chose to order their soldiers to fight hand-to-hand
primitively and to place ingenious traps to captivate to the greater
number of enemies.
Although
the humanity was relatively more united and its main goal was to
live, to live and to live, the diplomatic relations between the
countries did not vary much, because with dead or without them, the
ambitious interests of certain statesmen stayed unalterable.
Many problems
stopped being it in these conditions. No longer it existed the drama
of the lack of foods and the undernourishment; the human beings lived
although they would not prove a mouthful. The environmental
contamination no longer threatened the lungs of the inhabitants; the
number of smokers and drinkers notwithstanding its health was
increased.
But new problems
were generated: the food production no longer had the same demand,
the trade balance between the countries underwent by the same a
well-known misalignment. And nor what to say of the production of
warlike arms, bases economic of the world-wide powers; now this
branch totally was paralyzed, to anybody it was possible to be killed
and it caused drastic changes in the financial movements of the
entire world. It was the recession more serious than the humanity had
suffered.
With this panorama
of political destabilization as as much economic, immortality was a
new threat for social La Paz. In each region people suffered the
effects of the crisis: unemployment was become serious terribly, the
standard of life lowered in sensible form, the fight of classes was
polarized more than ever.
When
the manifestations of euphoria finished by immortality, the daily
thing was more distressing. The ambition by the material power and
things grew, the competition in all the spheres of the life was more
evident. All wanted to live but to live well, to have the best
position, the best opportunities, the best future… and the
reality were another one: the great majority could live, but
mediocrely.
The disputes by
envy, egoism and fear were provoked until in the smallest Earth
corner, between partners, friendly, spouses, parents and children.
- Andrea, you cannot
leave to me, you swore to love all the life to me.
- But Felipe, it do not give account you that now is no death that separates to us?
The nuptial
commitments entered disuse, the inheritances no longer worked and the
beneficiary assumptions had to rascar themselves with their own
nails. The lawyers took the hair to solve if era of justice to apply
more pains of “life imprisonment”.
While
the rate of natality grew, the one of mortality no longer it existed.
The world filled quickly, was broken any prognosis that of in case he
was alarming.
In paradoxical form,
even without radioactive pumps and neutrons, the Earth it lacked
peace. It was difficult to think about a single being who could be
calm, cheers. The uncertainty reigned, everybody began to worry
itself by the form to live its immortality, to remove advantage to
the others. The chaos was frightful. Tension was breathed.
In spite of being
guaranteed the physical health of the humans, little by little they
began to register mental imbalances as a result of the intense
anguish that prevailed between people. The psychiatrists who already
dedicated themselves to other tasks returned to be asked for by
anxious clients to find La Paz. With the psychoanalysts, the patients
wished to find an answer when what doing with their immortality in a
deranged and conflicting world.
The anguish of the
people did not remain in the doctor's offices but, before the panic
of the others, the manicomios returned to fill. The nerves attacked
insensitively. This scared more to people, as what it served to live
eternally in a neurosis state?
The inhabitants were
disappointed, confused, catched of by life in an amazing
planet.
Suddenly,
after whom he knows how many to days or months, in a city in which a
building was constructed, a worker, after falling from a floor
twelve, did not rise of the sidewalk. Timidly people approached and
surrounded to the man. Stupefied, incredulous, paralyzed, all nailed
their glance in the immovable man; it wanted it to nobody to touch.
Finally a brave one knelt, it took the pulse to the worker and
overwhelmed it went to the group and it said:
-He is dead!
In different sites
they followed one another, one after another one, similar cases. This
way infartado, over there running over, incinerating, drowning.
Bodies to which the soul followed to them before the sense of
expectancy of the multitude.
From emergencia hospitals returned abrir themselves, rooms of burial and pantheons. A rare loaded peace of mysticism and resignation surrounded the atmosphere. The headed ones of newspapers alluded of new account to the warlike conflicts, the political speeches and the rises of prices.
Without
manifestations of joy, but either of desperation and weeping, the
beings of all the borders did not welcome the return in normality
and, more than that, in the naturalness.
The
life in all orders was begun to reorganize. They returned old
conflicts, but now people counted on a special will to surpass them
within her own limits, the limits that mortality imposes.