Miles winced. That wasn't a happy question to answer for anyone. And he'd had to have that talk with his younger kids when his father had died. He bent down, leaning on his cane, to bring him closer to Mokou's eye level. Not that it took much leaning, given Miles's (lack of) height. This was a serious subject
"I'm afraid that's something no one has figured out how to do." And because most people knew about cryonics where he was from, "Sometimes doctors can catch people as they're dying and fix them, but human brains can only last so long without a heart and lungs. Even if you could get a body working again, the mind would still be gone. We don't know how to set brains back to the way they were."