A man has the opportunity to know his death or not, but if he learns the date of his death, he can possibly live forever, only under the conditions that he can live a "full" life, whatever that means. He gets a good deal of 88 remaining years. He will live to be a 115 years old. He thinks that is a good deal, and a life worth living, especially without the risk of death at any moment.
He accepts, attempts to live a "full" life, and spends the next ten years traveling the world and giving money and fully living out his life, seeing many things and living impossibly well. Then one day he becomes paralyzed and must live the rest of his 78 years as a paraplegic.
After much sorrow and reminiscing and guilt and regret on many levels, he eventually learns to accept his conditions, living a life full of positivity, albeit incapacitated. This unlocks his 115 year death mark, which will allow him to live forever, in the "fulfilled/full-life" harmony, but accepts death as a form of completion, the last part of perfection, the last part of being "full."
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