Pardoner's Tale

Wanting to make a change, to be important, is something anyone can relate to.  In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale he depicts three young men out to do just that.  They decide they would kill death itself, but on their quest were distracted by their own mortal wants.  By seeking death out they ended up killing themselves; they did indeed find death.  The fight against nature, the struggle for survival, is as old as life itself and is a struggle mankind has dealt with during the entirety of its existence.

Humans have constantly fought their environment from cooling buildings in the summer to carving mountains for easier irrigation.  The constant battle between people and their natural opponents has led them to the society in which they now live.  The eradication of disease, comparable to death, is something which is at the forefront of modern technology.  As more is learnt about these diseases, though, they are easier and easier to weaponize.  Beyond simple biological warfare, the germophobic and antibiotic world now forming can only lead to disaster with disease resistant bugs and degrading immune systems.  In the same way trying to stop the unstoppable death lead to death, can trying to halt the ever evolving. world of disease lead to a new plague and entirely backfire?