«Why Call Them Back from Heaven» concerns a near future where individuals are placed in suspended animation with the promise that they will be reborn when medical science can assure them of a prolonged life — that is, life everlasting. Simak’s future is very bleak. Individuals are fitted with death notification devices that alert monitors to quickly bring the deceased to the Forever Centers for internment. The punishment for crimes against the state is removal of the transmitters. Citizens live frugally in order to accumulate wealth, usually in the form of Forever Center investments, in order to assure themselves financial resources when they are revived since, after all, they will be living forever. The plot is propelled by the search for a missing document that may reveal unfortunate truths about the whole concept of the Forever Centers.
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