Xenomelia

LINK: Have you ever died before?THE CONSTRUCT: I am a construct, Link. We are not born, and we cannot die.[The campfire whimpers and sputters. They both turn to stare at the empty husk of another deceased construct rotting nearby.]THE CONSTRUCT WHO IS NOT BORN AND CANNOT DIE: …we cannot die in the same way our creators did.LINK: But surely it must be similar.THE CONSTRUCT: I wouldn’t know. Can a machine die like a heart stops beating?[Xenomelia (“foreign limb syndrome,” previously known as Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID)): A psychological disorder characterized by the non-acceptance of one or more of one’s own extremities and the resulting desire for elective limb amputation or paralysis]