I've been thinking a bit about a story like this, and seeing "The Lazarus Effect" just made me say, "Hey, I got better ideas than that!"
I'm gonna put out an idea for a story, and I want your guys' clear and unfiltered opinions about it. (Relax, unlike some bloggers on the internet, I won't take any offense. Z-E-R-O.)
In a fairly futuristic America, "New Life" is a procedure in which the recently dead or
very well preserved dead are reanimated, which allows them to go on with their lives. Government-types and any kind of rescure-worker are insured this treatment as a work benefit, but anybody could pay a deep-pocketed premium and be brought back if they died in an accident or murder or things like that.
An older woman, say 38 or 42, I haven't decided yet, does
the latter.I haven't decided how she would've died yet, but early on she does, and has her "New Life".
But New Life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Physical sensory and the body's reaction to touch and pain are brought back the same, but everyone living their new lives "can't feel". They are unable to experience hurt or profound pain, but so can't they feel happiness, joy, love, lust or excitement.
Similarly, as their treatment brought them back from the more mundane ends to life, they are well-adjusted against dying from it again - like disease or operable injuries. But nobody talks about the more graphic suicides among New Lives, nor how much higher the rates of suicide are to that demographic over that of regular people.
This currently woman does a lot of brooding, sure she may have defied death, but something inside her is dead. She does a lot of grieving for herself; she feels a rift between herself and everyone, living and living again; her memory doesn't spark any bit of recognition or enjoyment like they used to, they tend to frustrate her because she can't remember what those emotions were like;
She's alive again because she has her family to love and care for, but she forgot those things when she came back.
So anyway, would any of you awesome people read a series like this? ^~^
I'm gonna put out an idea for a story, and I want your guys' clear and unfiltered opinions about it. (Relax, unlike some bloggers on the internet, I won't take any offense. Z-E-R-O.)
In a fairly futuristic America, "New Life" is a procedure in which the recently dead or
very well preserved dead are reanimated, which allows them to go on with their lives. Government-types and any kind of rescure-worker are insured this treatment as a work benefit, but anybody could pay a deep-pocketed premium and be brought back if they died in an accident or murder or things like that.
An older woman, say 38 or 42, I haven't decided yet, does
the latter.I haven't decided how she would've died yet, but early on she does, and has her "New Life".
But New Life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Physical sensory and the body's reaction to touch and pain are brought back the same, but everyone living their new lives "can't feel". They are unable to experience hurt or profound pain, but so can't they feel happiness, joy, love, lust or excitement.
Similarly, as their treatment brought them back from the more mundane ends to life, they are well-adjusted against dying from it again - like disease or operable injuries. But nobody talks about the more graphic suicides among New Lives, nor how much higher the rates of suicide are to that demographic over that of regular people.
This currently woman does a lot of brooding, sure she may have defied death, but something inside her is dead. She does a lot of grieving for herself; she feels a rift between herself and everyone, living and living again; her memory doesn't spark any bit of recognition or enjoyment like they used to, they tend to frustrate her because she can't remember what those emotions were like;
She's alive again because she has her family to love and care for, but she forgot those things when she came back.
So anyway, would any of you awesome people read a series like this? ^~^
It's not exactly defying death, it's more like coming back for more and not exactly remembering why. And even with the added capacity to not die from the same thing as easy, second lives still end.
But still, we're all going to experience this story on both ends.