“‘I’d accepted losing my husband, until others started getting theirs back’” by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston

Note: While this article presents one possibility for how the future may play out, it should not be taken as a specific prediction by either the author or the Brain Preservation Foundation.

Amy Robertson-Wong
August 18, 2085

‘My husband had only died because saving his life would have been too weird.’

Annabel Walker had this realisation earlier this year after watching a video of Marcus Chen, a retired primary school teacher, sitting on a bed. His face is slack with relief, and teary-eyed family members are seated all around him. The scene is striking, but not particularly shocking - unless one surmises that Chen has recently been revived from preservation, after having been legally dead for fifteen years.

Annabel barely made it to the toilet before vomiting.

Chen had been the mentor of her late husband Julian, who had died at sixty-four in 2076. Six months earlier, he'd been [...]

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Outline:

(02:24) Available But Invisible

(04:16) A Growing Phenomenon

(06:35) The Historical Context

(09:23) The End of Preservation

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First published:

September 3rd, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ek4Qk6iyKv9MNF8QD/i-d-accepted-losing-my-husband-until-others-started-getting

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.