title: The Browser's Book of Endings: The End of Practically Everything and Everybody
author:  Charles Panati 
description: Charles Panati, a former physicist and science editor of <i>Newsweek</i>, is the author of fourteen books. He lives in West Sayville, New York.
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  #
  
  
  _“The End of the End of Everything,” by Dale Bailey, is an sf/horror story
  about a long-married couple invited by an old friend to an exclusive artists’
  colony. The inhabitants of the colony indulge in suicide parties as the world
  teeters on the brink of extinction, worn away by some weird entropy._
  
  
  _Like some other stories published on Tor.com, “The End of the End of
  Everything” contains scenes and situations some readers will find upsetting
  and/or repellent._ [—The Editors]
  
  
  _This novelette was acquired and edited for Tor.com by consulting editor[Ellen
  Datlow](https://www.tor.com/tags/Edited%20by%20Ellen%20Datlow)._
  
  
  The last time Ben and Lois Devine saw Veronica Glass, the noted mutilation
  artist, was at a suicide party in Cerulean Cliffs, an artist’s colony far
  beyond their means. That they happen