Author's note: Hello everyone! It took me a long time to get a new idea for a fanfic, but here it is! I hope you like it! Also, thank you very much for the kind reviews about my last one, I am really happy you enjoyed it!

As this is a pretty angsty fic in my opinion, I feel I should give you a warning right here; it can be very upsetting to several people, and there are mentions of violence and death as well as mental illnesses. So if this is something that might upset you, don't read it! I am not entirely sure about the rating either, but I'd still put it under T for now. More notes and several informations at the end.

Disclaimer: I do not own Code Blue or any of its characters.


Prologue

The worldwide top ten of death causes published by the World Health Organization showed that, although the top three did not seem to change, there has been an improvisation with death cases due to tuberculosis. HIV, which has been in the top ten in 2005, didn't make it in 2015.
When I was in medical school, I used to study the list of the top ten causes of death worldwide as soon as they were published. A morbid thing to do, one might think, but it still accounts for something. If we know the disease that killed most people in a year, we can try to find more approaches, change our life styles, prevent more people to die from it. In a way, I think it stands for our country's position in this world; in developing countries, the child and mother mortality are higher, in countries marred by war, the majority might be war victims.

The public does not seem to take a greater interest in the lists made by the WHO, they are practically evading it. I believe that people are secretly wondering what their own fate is going to be, and think about their habits that could increase their risk to die of such causes. Should I eat less salt and try to lose weight for the sake of my heart? Should I finally stop smoking? Should I stop eating so much sugar?

We try everything we can, we invent new things and methods, publish new studies and take effort to make life as long as it could possibly be, but someday we have to leave this world, and the question how we'll leave, is something we won't be able to answer to until this very moment, when it is indeed the end.