![]() ![]() He invites his son Jeffrey to the compound to take leave from Artis, Ross’s second wife and Jeffrey’s stepmother, dying, delivering her body to be prepared for preservation, believing that in the future scientific progress of nanotechnology will resuscitate and restore her to full health, and finally resurrect her in a more sophisticated mind and body, for living in an evolved world of light and peace. Ross Lockheart, filthy rich, a ‘man made of money’ earned by analyzing the economic impact of natural disasters, acts as a Maecenas to this futuristic project. Ending the Danse Macabre, defying the universality of death, preventing death taking all of use alike, by cryonic suspension. ![]() The Convergence, a cult-like movement based in a mysterious, sinister compound close to the border of Kyrgyzstan, half- sunken in the ground ‘a form of earth art, land art’, envisages to solve this outrage for the very well-to-do. Having to face that mortality and illness of their beloved ones is even beyond their control, as upon death all differences amongst people are erased, some of the high and mighty could consider this an inconvenient truth. Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. There is one who remembers the way to your door: ![]()
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