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- Author: John Corey Whaley
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WELCOME BACK, TRAVIS COATES
When Dr Lloyd Saranson from the Saranson Center for Life Preservation
showed up at my house, I was puking in the guest bathroom with my dad
sitting on the edge of the tub and patting my back. By that point I’d been
sick for almost a year, seen every cancer specialist in the tri-state area, and
given up all hope of survival.
Then this guy walks in and insists on pulling me out of my deathbed
long enough to pitch us the craziest shit in history. And we listened
because that’s what desperate people do. They listen to anything you have
to say to them.
“Travis,” he said. “I want to save your life.”
“Back of the line, buddy. No cutting.” I looked to my parents with a
grin, but they were either too tired or too sad to laugh.
“And how do you plan to do this?” Dad asked.
“Are you familiar with cryogenics?” Dr. Saranson asked with a serious
tone.
“All right. Thanks for stopping by,” Mom said, standing up and signaling
for the door.
“Mrs. Coates, I wish you’d just hear me out for a few minutes. Please.”
“Doctor, we’ve really been through a lot and—”
“Mom,” I interrupted her. “Please don’t take this away from me.”
“Fine, go on,” she said, sitting back down.
“Travis,” he said. “Your body is done on this earth. We all know that. It’s
a sad state of affairs, but there’s just no way we can change that.”
“Try harder, doc. You’re losing us here,” I said.
“Right. That’s to say, with what I’m proposing to you, that all doesn’t
matter anymore.”
“Why’s that?” I asked, looking to my parents, who were on the verge of
launching from their seats and attacking him.
“Well, because in the future there’ll be different ways for you to . . .
exist.”
“The future,” I said. This wasn’t something I’d given too much thought
lately.
“Exactly. The future. Imagine, Travis, that you could simply fall asleep
in this life and wake up in a new one someday.”
“How far into the future?” I asked. In my mind I was seeing my
spaceship folding down into a suitcase like George Jetson’s.
“With our latest breakthroughs we’re hoping to develop the means to
reanimate our first patients within a decade or two.”
“You’re serious, aren’t you?” Dad asked.
“Quite serious, Mr. Coates.”
“Has anyone else volunteered for this?” I asked.
“You’d be our seventeenth patient.”
“So cryogenics,” Dad said. “You want to freeze Travis with the hope of
bringing him back someday?”
“Not exactly,” he said. “As I was saying, Travis’s body is done on this
earth.”
“Oh my God,” Mom said quietly, this look of terror and disgust washing
over her face.
“My head?” I pointed to it when I spoke, like the surgeon needed that.
“You want to freeze just my head?”
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