TED DİYARBAKIR COLLEGE / 10-A
From a Cryogenically
Frozen Human-Machine
Işılsu GİRGİN
“I don’t remember what happened after I closed
my eyes for my long sleep.” I said to my sister’s
granddaughter.
I was the first human being who has been
cryogenically frozen and woken up. At first, I
couldn’t understand where I was. Everything
had changed after 128 years.
It all started when I learned there was no way
for me to live more than a year and beat breast
cancer, if I didn’t accept freezing my body. My
parents were rich enough to afford my process
and agreed to it.
I was totally healthy when I woke up. But with
a difference: my body parts had been replaced
with machines. After realizing my physical
differences, I learned even my genome had
been changed. Doctors were acting like there
was nothing to worry, because they were halfrobots
themselves.
I learned later that everyone who was born those
days had to undergo these changes after birth.
At first, I couldn’t believe it because I couldn’t
perceive the world the way I did before.
However, there were some logical facts about
this human-machine situation. My sister’s
grandchildren told me there wasn’t enough
water for us to live with a complete body.
As a result of global warming, most of the
civilizations submerged and people were dying
due to lack of water necessary to maintain their
basic needs. So, it was an obligation for us to
live without water now.
The solution was to have scientists change
people’s genomes and body. They had to
accelerate the adaptation change, otherwise it
could take ages to deal with it.
I am still trying to get used to this body. I wish
I lived that one year and saved our water from
this disastrous end.