Editing The Sea of the Dead (section)

== The world == 
10,000 years after a form of immortality was discovered and spread to all humankind, humanity leads a quieter, simpler life . Everyone can live forever; no wound is ever truly fatal short of immolation, and only the most serious of injuries will have any lasting effect. There's just one problem. The brain. Yes it will grow back, but the memories won't, and if it truly dies then the people come back...wrong.   

Modern life consist of enclaves of humanity eking out a living on remote, inaccessible locations. The eternally young cling to small, isolated settlements balanced precariously above the living sea of ancestors. This sea consists of trillions of ravening zombies.

Immortality is an everyday fact of life in this world - everyone stops aging at an approximate physical age of 20 and any non-fatal wound will heal perfectly in a week. As long as it doesn't kill you. Eternally young persons who live facing the terror of their own mortality because they have a look at the Afterlife every morning, and it roars and hungers for the flesh of the living....

The most grievous of wounds will heal in a week or so, and even a lost arm or leg will return in a matter of months. Despite this, it is possible to die the true death, but it is just as possible that even a man who is torn to pieces may have a pieces capable of rebuilding themselves. Except in a few exceptional cases, funeral rites consist of a simple and rapid burial at sea.