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Safe

Safe

Sealed inside this cutting-edge stasis pod, you'll never die. Yes—we’ve conquered the last remaining medical obstacle. Via the same techniques tardigrades use to survive in outer space, we send your brain into a brumation state (reducing your metabolic activity to zero). Your body is preserved in an amniotic-adjacent, stem-cell-based liquid, then encased in a titanium tank. We sink this shell deep into a decommissioned coal mine—no earthquake, plague, flood, war, or nuclear explosion can even touch you. No, you won't have thoughts or dreams or communication ever again, but you'll finally be completely safe. Aren’t you excited to live forever?