Our fragile world turned out to be defenseless against the indifference, stupidity, excessive ambition and greed of a few people, into whose hands fell not only power and money, but also the terrible weapon of the Apocalypse - a deadly virus that brings the dead back to life. Billions of people have turned into creatures hungry for flesh, a collapsed civilization has become a place in which only those who have found the strength to fight for the right to be called Human will survive. A fan fiction that dreams of becoming a continuation of “The Age of the Dead” by Andrei Cruz. The use of characters from the original trilogy has been agreed with the copyright holder (Maria Cruz) The series of books “Hell is the lot of the living”, “Struggle is the lot of the strong”, “Memory is the lot of the dead” is a continuation of the “Age of the Dead” series by Andrei Cruz and fan fiction of several other authors, combining them into one world. All coincidences are random, names and events are fictitious. The text is science fiction and does not incite violence and hostility on any grounds. Special thanks to Maria Cruz, Boris Gromov, Sergei “Grey Wolf”, Pavel Kalashnikov and the readers of the portal “Worlds of Cruz” for advice, criticism and moral support. The action of the book unfolds in an inter-author series of books by different authors united by a large universe - “The World of Thanatos”The images on the cover are inspired by the images proposed by the author