![]() ![]() ![]() Mateo lives much of his life online, playing video games and watching livestream videos on a blog called CountDowners, where Deckers can livestream their End Day for viewers at home. Rather, it’s healthier and more fulfilling to recognize the simple fact that all humans are mortal as a reason to make the most out of one’s life, no matter how short it might be. Through its very premise, They Both Die at the End questions how people can and should deal with their mortality-but the novel overwhelmingly suggests that focusing entirely on death isn’t especially useful. The novel centers on two teenage boys, Mateo and Rufus, who both receive calls on the same September day and who connect with each other on the social media app Last Friend. In the novel, individuals who are going to die in the next 24 hours ( Deckers) receive calls from an organization called Death-Cast between midnight and three in the morning, informing them of this fact so that they can make the most of their last day alive (their End Day). They Both Die at the End plunges the reader into a world that, in a variety of ways, doesn’t seem that much different from the reader’s world-except when it comes to dying. ![]()
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