On my epitaph please write:"Don't wake me up, fuckers!"
You Die.
You die one day. You kind of try to make peace with it. Either your name is Michelangelo and you will live forever by your art pieces, or you are Napoleon and you wrote history. Either you had a great and happy family, or you were just a good friend. It does not matter what makes you leave this world without regrets. So you die and you aspire for eternal peace.
Let’s say you died in 1200 AD or BC, or just last year. If any of you were woken up from among the dead, it would feel as if only a moment had passed. Because of this, we are equals in front of the starting line of the end of times. We die in different epochs, but we wake up all together.
Then the question is: What will happen to you? What if they throw you back into your last life? Would you take it? And if you don’t take it, are you ready to start anew? Will you still be yourself?
These questions are pertinent because, in the future, it is not impossible that man could, with AI, revive the personas of the past, or even yourself.
What would you do then?
Coming naked again into this world as if you never died. Waking up with all the heavy burden of the past, all you have to do just because you are trapped in this life, and you will never know peace until you pay all your dues.
Imagine this could be real. Nothing guarantees anybody a clean, unbothered, anonymous death. These crazies could wake you up someday. On my tomb, I want this epitaph:
“Above all, don’t wake me up please. I’ve seen enough. Let me be at peace.”
You never know with these crazies. They made life on earth a hell. They are capable of not letting you even be dead in peace.
Bastards!
You may laugh, but think again. When you are dead, the rest of time is eternity; an abyss where you cannot feel the end. Nothing guarantees they will not raise you back and inject you into the system. It could be possible one day, until it becomes mandatory.
The devil does not let you live, he does not let you die. He wants to steal your peace above all, because hell is being restless.
They steal your life, they steal your death. Checkmate. We are fucked forever if, when we close our eyes, we have to open them again in a digital cage.