Survivor (Palahniuk novel)
Tender is a member of the Creedish Church, a cult which engaged in a mass suicide ten years previously.Surviving members of the cult have been steadily killing themselves since the mass suicide, in keeping with their belief that deliverance is at hand.Later that night, Tender has a weekly meeting with his caseworker from a government agency that keeps tabs on the survivors of suicide cults.Tender recognizes the man's pants as Creedish dress and realizes he is Adam, his fraternal twin brother.Tender agrees to the procedure, as he has no will to live and desires fame only in order to have an enormous audience for when he commits suicide.Tender's agent plans an elaborate wedding for him that will take place during the Super Bowl halftime show, at which point he will make another miraculous prediction.During their journey north to Canada, Adam recounts how the leaders of the Creedish Church terrorized the children into fearing sex by forcing them to watch every time a woman went into labor.The plot thus returns to the beginning, with Tender explaining that Fertility told him there was a way for him to escape the plane before it crashes, but on the record, he can't seem to figure it out.[3] The project was in development at production company Thousand Words[4] to be written by Albert Torres[4] and directed by Francis Lawrence.