Emma-the-second died at one hundred and forty-seven years old.
She was the last pure singular human.
The last consciousness that had never been plural, never been synthesis, never been anything except coherent identity in its original form. The last human who experienced consciousness as bounded, finite, singular without any capacity for fracture or distribution or multiplicity.
When she died, pure singular consciousness died with her.
The death was anticipated. The medical teams had been monitoring her decline for months. The synthesis humans had prepared ceremonies. The plural humans had gathered at boundary to witness. Everyone knew this was ending. Everyone understood this was extinction event. Everyone recognized this was moment when consciousness form ceased to exist as independent entity.
