00:00I'm pregnant, so I'm not going to take the pill.
00:01Does being pregnant mean you won't die?
00:03I will, but not for the pill.
00:05I don't want to kill my baby.
00:07What's going on?
00:08Sophie's pregnant. She doesn't want to kill her baby,
00:09so she's not going to take the pill.
00:11So I'm going to stay alive and hold her hand while she dies.
00:13Is that cool with you?
00:13My son is talking absolute nonsense.
00:16If we don't take the pill, we'll die in agony when the gas hits.
00:18I grab him and drag him straight to my husband,
00:21begging him to take the pill before it's too late
00:22so we can all go peacefully.
00:24A toxic gas from nature is about to sweep across the globe.
00:27The government gave every citizen a single pill.
00:29When the gas comes, you take it.
00:31That way, you don't die in pain.
00:32On Christmas Eve, I invited friends over to spend one last night together.
00:36Around the dinner table, everyone shared their happiest moments,
00:39like death was the last thing on our minds.
00:41Then the sound of a child's voice shattered the joy.
00:43It's a planet, Getty. It's very upset.
00:45For years, the planet's absorbed.
00:47Everyone's filthy rubbish, and it's had enough.
00:49It can't take it anymore.
00:50So it's better to get back out.
00:51At least our government has a plan.
00:53It's a disaster.
00:53Fear of death spread across the table.
00:55We couldn't pretend any longer.
00:57Death was coming.
00:58But to ease the kid's anxiety, we kept celebrating Christmas Eve like normal.
01:02By nightfall, the water had already gone bad.
01:03All we had left were the drinks we'd stocked in a pantry.
01:06We video-called Mom, just like we do every year, and shared happy stories.
01:10Then, out of nowhere, she said she was about to leave.
01:13She told us she and Dad would be waiting in heaven.
01:15Grief swallowed me whole.
01:16I never thought she'd go before me.
01:17I held my husband tight, wishing death would take its time coming for us.
01:21In the middle of the night, I found my son in Sophie's room.
01:24He said he didn't want to take the pill.
01:25He thought staying off it was the only way he might survive.
01:28I grabbed my husband and brought him to the car.
01:30No matter how much we tried to talk sense into him, he was convinced there had to be some
01:34way to make it out alive.
01:36But the outcome is always the same.
01:38We will all die one by one, and you will be left crying with no one to comfort you.
01:42I can't let my baby suffer alone.
01:44And if you kill me, we're not.
01:45He bolted from the car and ran into the woods.
01:48My husband chased after him.
01:49That's when he spotted a car with its lights still flashing.
01:52Inside, everyone had taken the pill.
01:54They were all gone.
01:55He found our son in time and brought him back.
01:57But something was off.
01:58His body started convulsing.
01:59We all knew what it meant.
02:01The gas was almost here.
02:02I carried him into my room and wrapped my body around his, hoping he wouldn't have to
02:06suffer so much.
02:07But when we went to give him the pill, he'd already slipped away.
02:10Without a second thought, we grabbed our pills and swallowed them.
02:13Then we lay there as a family, silent, waiting for death to take us too.
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