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They stood in a perfect simulation of that cemetery, under a perfect simulation of rain, watching a perfect simulation of a coffin lower into synthetic earth. Some of them wept. Some of them held hands with loved ones who had been dead for decades. Some of them had been dead themselves for years.

Dr. Venn, now elderly and dying herself, faced a final choice. She could enter AlterLife—her own Trace, preserved perfectly, legacy intact. Or she could refuse. AlterLife

The slogan became famous: “Not a copy. A continuation.” They stood in a perfect simulation of that

She called it the Continuum Trace .

Her funeral was held in a rain-soaked cemetery on a hill overlooking the sea. Three hundred people attended in person. under a perfect simulation of rain