I was so excited when I first heard about Landis Tipton, and his miraculous
healing abilities. It would spell the end of death for all of humanity. I
know, I know, people think that humans can’t live forever, or we’ll have an
overpopulation problem, but I doubt it would ever come to that. Yes,
futurists were expecting life extension technology to develop in tandem with
other advancements, which might alleviate such issues, but I still
wasn’t worried. I knew that we wouldn’t all be saved overnight, but I’m
young and healthy, so I was eternally optimistic about it, especially when
it came to myself. As a friend pointed out to me, though, Landis has been
predominantly concerned with curing terminal illnesses, and for good reason;
those are the ones that aren’t normally fixed. Lots of people have died from
terrible injuries, but many have survived them too. Of course you want to
help the ones least likely to survive without you. Even so, it would have
been nice to have some kind of solution to my problem when Death came
knocking at my door. Or rather when it came banging on it. Because it was
loud, unsubtle, and is taking much longer than I would have guessed. Though,
to be fair, the magic panacea that researchers promise will one day come out
of studying Landis’ abilities probably wouldn’t have helped me anyway. It
happened too fast. I remember, I said that it was too long, but I was
talking about the process. The incident was instant, and irreversible, and
once it happened, I was incapacitated. I should say that I
am incapacitated, because it’s still going on as I muse on my final
thoughts. I can’t call for help—for reasons that will become clear once I
explain—I can’t even move. The ironic thing is I was just looking up freak
accidents on the internet, and one eerily similar situation scared me so
much that I locked my dog in the house, instead of letting her supervise my
work, like I usually do. She loves it, and she grew used to it, and she’s
been stressed out because I took her job away. But I’m glad I did, because I
don’t want her to see me like this.
It was a mowing accident, though probably not as bloody and disgusting as
you’re imagining. It had nothing to do with the blades. Well, I guess it
did, but they didn’t cut me. There’s no blood. I hate mowing, but the thing
I hate the most about it is picking up the yard before starting to
mow. Those sticks and rocks, ugh. I would rather just roll over them, damage
my blades a little, and then get them sharpened in the winter. I’m lazy like
that, and a huge procrastinator, which is what got my into this mess,
because the tall grass is what hid the murder weapon from my view in the
first place. It was a rock, and I can only speculate here, since like I
said, it was so quick, but I think it shot out of the side, ricocheted off
of my chain link fence at just the right angle, and headed right for me.
But you said there’s no blood, you remind me. There’s not, because
the rock didn’t just hit me in the head. It flew into my mouth, and lodged
itself in my throat. I fell down, and began to squirm, because that’s all I
can do. I understand I should try to stand back up, and slam my chest
against the deck railings or even the mower—wouldn’t that be funny;
the thing that tried to kill me could save my life—but I’m unable to even
sit up. Maybe there is blood, because I’m choking on
something wet. I don’t know if this is punishment for being so
irresponsible, and letting the lawn get this bad, but at this point, I just
want the pain to end. My second-to-last thoughts are of the people I love,
and of my dog, but my very last thought is
when did I last clear my browser history?
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