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Imagine this:
Any S&D character is eighty years old; their entire family has passed away.
They're in the hospital.
Last week the doctor gave them two weeks left to live.
But today, a different doctor comes into their room with another option.
Yesterday a new form of brain preservation was approved for further testing.
The doctor says this is going to sound out of the ordinary.
"But we are beginning a new study, and we need patients. We have successfully achieved full functionality within the brain after its removal, and the problem is that the brain has no form of input or output after removal. We can't know for sure what the state of their consciousness was in those moments, but we assume it can't be good. So morally, we terminated each brain within twenty-four hours of removal. I'm telling you this because I want to be upfront. The next step is giving the brain away to input and output. I assume you know what I mean. But essentially, we will preserve your brain and use a brain-machine interface connected with a humanoid robot or any robot of your choice. You will have hearing, enhanced eyesight, scent, and the whole thing. Now you would be patient One. So we can't foresee everything. But we have extremely high hopes,"
"I'll give you some time to think about it," and just like that, the doctor exits the room.
Whomever character you picked will have essentially been offered the key to eternity.
Immortality.
Would they take it?
They have no friends or family left, and the world they grew up in is completely different than the one in front of them.
They may soon be within the last generation of people to ever lose a loved one.
Can they handle that?
Do they live forever knowing that everyone they have ever known or loved just barely missed the cut-off?
Imagine all the possibilities, they could go anywhere, they could destroy the robot and simply connect to a new one; they would be invincible.