I nodded, trying to put words to my memories of those last moments in the caves. "I was tired of being a parasite, tired of living my life at the expense of others. When I decided...to give Melanie back, to leave so she wouldn't be imprisoned in my mind, it was with the intention of not coming back. Dying." I finished and had to take a breath to calm the erratic emotions.

"I asked Doc to bury me with my friends, to not put me in a cryotank. I didn't want to go to another planet, another life. I wanted to stay on Earth, be buried with my friends."