[His voice loses some of the pleading intensity that it had gained when the grief for Cecil needed an outlet. It becomes quieter, and a little calmer. A calm gained by falling back on the comforting support of science.]
Death is an absence of life, it is defined by a lack of heartbeat, of breathing, of pulse. Before the particular egg and the particular sperm bearing our DNA collided, we all exhibited these signs of death, these signs of an absence of life. But we have not all been dead such as is so common here, a more violent and bloody death, with a different sort of rebirth.
But... there is a rebirth. And Cecil has told me before, more than once, that his contracted employment with the ever present and often ominous Yao Corporation would afford him a definite and swift revival.
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[His voice loses some of the pleading intensity that it had gained when the grief for Cecil needed an outlet. It becomes quieter, and a little calmer. A calm gained by falling back on the comforting support of science.]
Death is an absence of life, it is defined by a lack of heartbeat, of breathing, of pulse. Before the particular egg and the particular sperm bearing our DNA collided, we all exhibited these signs of death, these signs of an absence of life. But we have not all been dead such as is so common here, a more violent and bloody death, with a different sort of rebirth.
But... there is a rebirth. And Cecil has told me before, more than once, that his contracted employment with the ever present and often ominous Yao Corporation would afford him a definite and swift revival.