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The categories of life was a system used to classify people on Earth when, after Miracle Day, people stopped dying. Badly injured people, Categories 1 and 2, were taken to overflow camps. Those in Category 1 were secretly taken to modules and burned alive. This seemed the only way humans could die after the Miracle occurred. Even after the Modules became common knowledge, they were still used. Governments gave law enforcement special powers to search premises without a warrant if there was suspicion of an unlicenced Category 1 located there.

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  • The categories of life was a system used to classify people on Earth when, after Miracle Day, people stopped dying. Badly injured people, Categories 1 and 2, were taken to overflow camps. Those in Category 1 were secretly taken to modules and burned alive. This seemed the only way humans could die after the Miracle occurred. Even after the Modules became common knowledge, they were still used. Governments gave law enforcement special powers to search premises without a warrant if there was suspicion of an unlicenced Category 1 located there.
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  • The categories of life was a system used to classify people on Earth when, after Miracle Day, people stopped dying. Badly injured people, Categories 1 and 2, were taken to overflow camps. Those in Category 1 were secretly taken to modules and burned alive. This seemed the only way humans could die after the Miracle occurred. In theory, the category system was necessary because the global situation was thought of as an epidemic in which victims' bodies would be burned en masse. The bodies of Category 1 individuals, potentially infectious, would otherwise remain eternally alive but legally dead under the new laws. Even after the Modules became common knowledge, they were still used. Governments gave law enforcement special powers to search premises without a warrant if there was suspicion of an unlicenced Category 1 located there. In reality, the line between the categories was dubious. A Category 1 could become Category 2, should they recover; Rex Matheson should have been killed when he was impaled by a rebar, but healed over time. Likewise, a Category 2 could slide into Category 1 without proper treatment. Individuals such as Geraint Cooper (who lapsed into a deep coma after suffering a stroke) were lumped into Category 1 with the truly brain-dead. Esther Drummond jokingly referred to Jack Harkness as "Category Jack" when he became mortal, as opposed to the rest of the planet's immortality. Slang developed for the concept, with some people referring to Category 1s as "Cat 1s. (TV: The Middle Men) Also, as death no longer existed on Earth, some replaced the verb "to kill" with "to Category 2". (TV: The Blood Line)
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