"FWLS42" - читать интересную книгу автора (A Future We'd Like to See)

parents would assume later after scraping through the layers of
his cheap ten-credit white out fluid.

Sure, there would be a memorial service. The principal
would speak about these dark times which drove him to his death,
how he was the student who 'tried too hard'. Other students
would end themselves in honor of his last words, leaving confused
messages about a dark empty world that hates them. Completely
wrong, of course. That wasn't why he was jumping.

He was doing it because, when he got right down to it, he
simply HATED public speaking.

So he smiled on the way down, even after losing most of his
brain to the synthetic concrete. Life's just funny that way, he
figured in his last synaptic firings.

He was scooped up by the ambulance and converted to spare
parts shortly afterward, for use as life saving implants and
hyperaddictive drugs.