โ Katrina Kahler; John Zakour
๐ Fiction
๐
2017
๐ KC Global Enterprises Pty Ltd
๐ English
โ 528 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Ups and Downs of Being Dead
โ Scribed by M. R. Cornelius
- Publisher
- Createspace;Hickory Flat Books
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 186 KB
- Edition
- 1st trade pbk ed
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Fifty-seven year old Robert Malone is the CEO of a successful clothing store chain and married to a former model. When his doctor tells him he is dying of cancer, he refuses to go quietly. Instead of death, Robert chooses cryonics. He knows it's a long shot. His frozen body will be stored in liquid nitrogen for the next seventy-five years, and then he'll wake up in the future. That is, if technology develops a way to bring him back. He's willing to take that gamble. What he doesn't realize is that he won't lie in some dreamless state all that time. His soul is very much awake, just like the others who were frozen before him. And like these souls in limbo, Robert begins a new kind of life outside his physical body. He discovers that he can ride in the cockpit with the pilots, but he can't turn the page of a magazine. He can sit in the oval office with the president, but he can't prevent a child from dashing in front of a car. He doesn't work, or eat, or sleep. He can't smell, or taste, or touch. These obstacles make it difficult to experience love, and virtually impossible to reconcile with the living. Over the next several decades, Robert Malone will have plenty of time to figure out The Ups and Downs of Being Dead.
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