if (life == digital && time == expired) then existence = null;

In a world where the human mind can live beyond death, the digital afterlife offers the promise of eternity. But immortality comes with an expiration date. As their final moments approach, one inhabitant reflects on the choices that brought them here—a perfect world, free from the pain of loss, but hollow and fragile. Haunted by memories of a love left behind and the creeping realisation that even digital existence must end, they confront the chilling truth: that the search for immortality may only delay the inevitable.

Expiration Date explores the fragility of memory, the bittersweet nature of love, and the quiet terror of knowing when the end will come. In this introspective, melancholic tale, the boundaries between life, death, and what comes after blur, raising the question: what do we lose when we try to live forever?

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Soundtrack (made with Suno AI): Digital Requiem