Page 7. Following death and any attempt at organ donation you may have permitted, you can will your body to certain universities or institutions. It typically becomes a subject of study for medical or forensics students (or law enforcement trainees, if you will it to a “body farm” where human decomposition is studied.) If you will it to the U of M, after a period of time your body is cremated and interred, among countless others, in a modest plot at the edge of a cemetery in south Minneapolis.
Al never wanted anything fancy.
well i’m definitely not tearing up a little bit after reading the a/n
How very… human.
Oh, Al…… :'(
Everything in our Universe (and that’s EVERYTHING) DOES get recycled.
You and I, and the rest of us, are all StarStuff. Enjoy it while we’re here!
HhhhhHhmmmmmmmmMMmmm, that does mean some people, somewhere, had access to Al’s body after Brendan tried to scan his mind. I mean, my working theory is that robo-Al was still compiled from those scans and not others but… Very interesting. And generous.
Oooooooh, I think you’re on to something.
I don’t think so. The reason why Sulla is Sulla and not Al is at least in part because of the fact that Brendan couldn’t get a complete scan of Al because Al’s brain activity dipped too low. Unless someone both had access to Al’s body after death and a way to scan his brain without it being active, I don’t think that’s possible
Something worth considering is that the brains of those considered geniuses are often very heavily studied and scrutinized after death, sometimes in violation of the deceased’s will. The fact that the Sterling emulator exists and works well enough for Sulla to exist means that this world is probably years if not decades ahead of our understanding of the brain. And while the tiara and emulator copies information from living brains, it’s not inconceivable that you could get similar information by close and careful imaging and dissection.