Creative Writing Coursework 'Rebirth'
Where to begin, it all happened so quickly all I know is that I was happily watching the TV when I felt a sharp pain in my chest as if being stabbed, little did I know that I was having a heart attacked! I awoke just a week ago but am still piecing together exactly what went on. Only a few months before the incident I enrolled myself into a company, which claimed that they could successfully cryogenically freeze people and would revive them if and when the technology arose.
I signed various documents stating that I would allow my body to undertake the procedures and revoked the responsibilities after death from next of kin. It was rather expensive as I remember over twenty thousand pounds. I truly did not believe that the experiment would flourish but contemplated, ‘what if’ in my fight for eternal youth.
The Doctor explained that I was saved by my late wife who immediately called the special emergency number on my card. The ‘Cryonics Europe’ team responded quickly. They firstly put me into a bath of dry ice and then attached me to the necessary equipment to keep my blood circulating, quite strange I know. I was then apparently wrapped, submerged in alcohol and airlifted along with one hundred and twenty kilograms of ice to America not quite what I expected either. They, I say they because I don’t quite know who they are yet, have preserved me until today. The year being 2590 I guessed that things in general had change and expected that the moment I would step outside I would feel completely alien to the surroundings. In fact I was absolutely spot on. I was a doctor by trade just five years away from retirement only to find myself a statistic of early death. There was never a fondness between technology and me, in most ways we were simply incompatible. I remember an interesting incident when even the life support machine went dead on me, bit of a pun I know. It astounds me that I even considered the ‘Rebirth’ program, I suppose I must have merely wanted to know how technologically crazed the world would become.
