She has always been a man of her own age, and she feels that it is a label on a medical chart, which does not represent an attitude that must be looked at or looked down, nor an excuse for intimacy or alienation. In front of her daughter, she had never lived as an ascendant, and the two were more like friends or sisters, and she did not mind that her daughter was placing her shoulder on her shoulder and yelling at old Do, which was an intimacy, regardless of respect.
However, on the same day, after 15 minutes of silence, her daughter cried out in tears and she did not know how to respond. For the first time, age had become an obstacle to communication, something she had never thought of. Pretending to be around, she raised a few words, changed her mind, put together a slightly satisfactory reply, and regretted it once it was out, but she could not take it back.
“How have you been all these years, daughter? I’m sorry.
The sound from the voice synthesiser was so round that she could not hear it converted from the pulsation signal from the brain-neurological interface that she felt it was her voice, which, by the way, was the sound of which she had forgotten.
She looked at her daughter’s color, which had not changed, and she was relieved. She was afraid that her words would be too old and painful, after all, age had become an obstacle, and that it was like a lesson to speak.
The daughter said, “It’s good that two children were legally born, and the grandson was old and the husband was in good health. Nothing to be sorry about. I’m sorry.
She thought, “What’s so hard about all these years?” Tell me. I’m sorry.
My daughter replied, “It’s no problem. Prices are rising fast, pensions are enough, and rents are being collected, and the government has renewed the house for 70 years last year, costing only $20,000; grandchildren are not paying for school, that is to say, a car with a tail sign every day and a car back in 10 days, which is a bit unconvenient; the air is still in order, so don’t go out; they say that China’s population has been falling ever since 2026, with few people on the street, many old ladies dancing and so on. I’m sorry.
She smiled: “What dance, national dance?” I’m sorry.
And the daughter smiled: “Look at you, it’s the age of the square, the dancing, the jumping. I’m sorry.
She laughed, and said, “Come and rub my face, and it’s always awe.” I’m sorry.
The daughter pulled the towel out of the bag and came over to wipe her mouth and nostrils, and said, “How good is it that she cleans herself, I’m not as good as a robot, Dow. You’re stuck in your heart, not in your face. I’m sorry.
“Who says so, I see you wipe it clean. I’m sorry.
“Look what you said. I’m sorry.
“Alas, we look so alike. I’m sorry.
“That’s, you’re my mom. I’m sorry.
They look at each other so close that they can see the wrinkles on each other ‘ s faces and do not embarrass each other. She felt a little confused about her daughter’s eyes, and she could guess why, but she could not.
“You said I wasn’t really scary. I’m sorry.
“No, it’s the same as before. It hasn’t changed. I’m sorry.
She saw herself in her daughter ‘ s pupils: a head placed on a silver plate. The doctor kindly gave her a red wig and covered her neck with a hair cover that covered her naked line. She didn’t think much of what her hair looked like before, or maybe that kind of deep red hair, which looked like a fashionable old lady.
The year she died of cancer, she was 61. This year she’s still 61 years old.
The year she died, daughter 27 years old. This year, daughter 77 years old.
After 50 years of sleeping in liquid nitrogen at 196 degrees below, she woke up and found that the world was still like that, just a little bit of an ethical problem.
02
The technical staff of the Alco Life Extension Foundation assured that their “glassation” refrigeration technology would not cause any harm to human tissue, as the water would not freeze and cell structures would not be destroyed.
The Foundation has more than 1,000 members, keeps more than 100 frozen human beings and at least 40 pets. It was a group of prophets, or gamblers, who slept in liquid nitrogen, because at that time humans did not have the technology to unfreeze the human body, and the future was uncertain, and no one knew when they would wake up from the slumber or sleep in the ice coffin forever.
She chose to be the first frozen man in China. She doesn’t know about technology, she doesn’t have a big ambition, she’s just curious about life and time. The daughter and son-in-law unconditionally supported the decision, helping her to raise the high cost of the freeze, and in order to save money, she only frozen her own head and abandoned her desolate body in 2015.
The final moment was really vague, and she could not remember what had happened in the emergency room or say goodbye to her daughter. What’s the point of saying goodbye? Since it’s possible to meet in the future.
One minute after her heart stopped beating, the Alco Foundation completed the drug injection, cooling, freezing and returned her head to the Fund ‘ s headquarters for preservation. Seconds tick, Arizona’s sun is bright and dark, and it’s been 40 years between. A new defrozen technology has been developed, with slow warming combined with molecular repair, and the probability of successfully awakening a frozen human is over 90 per cent.
The first freezer opened his eyes and survived with in vitro cyclic machinery for four months, dying of organ failure. Second, the third freezer was awakened, and with the help of doctors and machines, they slowly learned to master their entire muscles, and they learned a new world with a brain that had stopped for decades. Modern medicine could treat their old diseases, but it was difficult to repair the psychological trauma caused by long-term freeze.
The fourth to be unfrozen was a politician, a rock star and a speaker who quickly stood up under a spotlight and became the focus of the global media.
An ethical, religious, sociological and anthropological debate had begun, and heated debate was over the mobile Internet, and everyone had to choose between support and opposition. A few years later, when thawers were shot and killed by extremist religious groups, the tragedy accelerated the pace of legislation. The Legal Committee of the United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Refrigeration of Human Beings, which calls for the full recognition of the rights of human beings to unfreeze, the legal definition of the grey area of human beings to be frozen, and the authorization of bodies such as Arco to carry out, on a global scale, the legitimate operation of human beings to freeze and unfreeze in the context of medical research.
Dust is settled. The daughter then submits her application for information about the freeze.
She woke up from sleepless sleep. The thawing process went smoothly, and she suffered only a slight memory disorder, which was the natural loss of a fragile brain neurons during human death, almost inevitable.
The biggest problem was that, as medical ethics had not yet opened up the ban on self-medical cloning, the mechanical body was not yet mature, and in order to obtain a healthy body, it had to wait for a donation — which meant a long wait and a strange body that was not its own.
She felt the need to talk to her daughter.
03
“Now is the Arco Foundation’s membership fee still due? She turned her eyes away and said, “Is it heavy?” If the burden is not heavy, I want to sleep for a few more years, and the technology is still not developed enough to allow me to stand up with my body. I’m sorry.
The daughter replied: “The dues are fine, can afford, and don’t worry. You mean you want to freeze for a while. A few years later, then unfrozen?”
“I can’t stand it now.” It may not be the right time to wake up. I’m sorry to keep bothering you. I’m sorry.
The house is quiet. She was anxious to wait for her daughter’s response, and she couldn’t look at the face of that strange old woman, afraid to look at it for a long time, and forget her 27-year-old daughter.
“Look, you’re my mother, you should do whatever you want.” But this time, we’ll never see each other again. I’m sorry.
She swooped. For her, time was a less meaningful matter, just as age had lost its norm. She remembers that she struggled for more than half a year on her bed to contact the Alco Foundation of the United States to arrange for later events, and that it was now as soon as her eyes closed. According to the doctor, it would not be more difficult to go further in the future than it would have been in the case of a cold surgery, which, with the present technology, is a matter of instantaneousity, sleep, awakening, and the last thought in the brain, like a dream of pressing a pause button.
But never again. Not just daughters, but all the relatives and friends of the world.
She works in a publishing house, she’s a editor of science fiction, and she’s been thinking about it. Now she’s got nothing to say to her daughter.
The light was so soft that it sounded, “For Ms. Doo’s health, it’s time for today’s visit. I’m sorry.
The daughter came close to her, slowly fell into her body and touched her cheek with her white-haired forehead: “I’ll go first, Doo, come back tomorrow, then give me a decision.” Don’t worry about the money. I’m sorry.
“Well, somebody’s coming to pick you up. Slow down. I’m sorry.
“I know. I’m sorry.
The daughter slipped the pointer, the wheelchair slipped out of the ward along a virtual track, the door was closed and the light slowly went down.
She looked at the windows, they became transparent, the twilight was dark outside, and Beijing City appeared a little taller, brighter than 50 years ago and unchanged.
She closes her eyes and feels warm body fluids pumped into her veins. Crying, not coming out, may be water shortages in the pipe, or brain damage, forgetting which muscle to tear out the tears.
She died once, and now she’s alive, not really alive.
She still wants to see the day she’s actually alive and walking down the street.
04
The daughter drove out of the CCC (China Cryonics Center) building and mounted the wheelchair on the barrier-free system to the orbital station. While waiting for the capsule train, she used the retina to show the latest offer to watch the human body freeze: Alco Foundation, 50 years, 3 million yuan yuan. China Medical Refrigeration Research Society, 50 years, $2 million.
The train was parked on the platform, she drove into the car and the wheelchair was automatically locked at the anchor. The hatch is closed and the train is starting to accelerate steadily, reaching the maximum speed of 1050 kilometres per hour in a few minutes. Two hours later, she arrived in Shenzhen from Beijing, where she travelled to Kuala Lumpur on the submarine high-speed railway. She wants to meet a businessman there.
Unlicensed human freezer, 50 years, 200,000 yuan, black market price. There are over 100,000 aluminum alloy sarcophagus in underground warehouses in the New Mountain Science Park in Malaysia, each of which lies a prophet, gambler or escapee. Among them are terminal cancer patients, future speculators who are secretly ready to board a ship, victims who are dying in a car accident, criminals who are waiting for the expiry of their years of litigation, risk-takers who have paid a million years of frozen fees, art brokers who have buried antiques waiting for appreciation, and, for no reason, frozen lovers who want to freeze themselves.
She’s lying here with her husband and her eldest son. Brain haemorrhage caused the paralysed husband and the son who was bullied by his classmates and killed himself.
It’s an era of rejection of death. Rapid freezing, molecular repair, and blurring the line between life and death were only a slightly longer summer dream for all. Those who are bound to die in this age will be revived in the next. Life is being stretched into strips, people and human frequencies intersecting, turning away from reality, cutting off the link to the real world and meeting their loved ones in an unknown future.
The same thing is happening in thousands of underground frozen warehouses around the world.
She walked out of the Kuala Lumpur high-speed railway station and drove a wheelchair through a crowd of people who were very popular. The population of the planet is declining, and it is not clear if anyone has noticed that. The technology of human freezing is God’s teaching of human self-defeating. Every human being has in his heart, a small beast called “run away” which, if he eats enough, eats the heavens and the earth.
“Hello, you’ve come to take care of my business again. “The merchants are laughter and greeting.
“Maybe two businesses. She said:
The end–
□ Chang lan
I don’t know.
Keep your eyes on the road.
