The Obituary of Sans G. Burg

On January second in 2051 a girl was born, well what most believed to be a girl. Her name was Suni Galla Burg, given to her by her mother. She born to a rich upper class family which spoiled her rotten. At five years she had identified herself as a male. She would scream at dresses, play rough with boys her age, and at six she cut her hair, which was at her waist, to be just above her neck. During that incident she cut her neck on the right side and left a small scar in a curved downward direction.

It was at that moment that her parents related in the reigns and became more authoritative. When she was ten years old she could read, write, and speak seven languages, fluently. Latin, Japanese, Basque, and Swahili being her favorite. By the age of twelve she was exceptionally talented, in sports, she could play soccer, volleyball, karate, and tennis. She was handsome, tall for her age, short dirty, borderline brown, blond hair, eyes that resembles a tiger's eye stone, and a playful smirk that told the tale of a trickster.

She was a leader, Suni was the first person to take charge if needed. She was captain of the soccer team, the volleyball team, and the tennis team in different years. But the one thing that really stood out about her was her knack, no, gift for technology. In 2064 when she was just thirteen years old, Suni built the first ever android. And it worked like a real human so much so that if she had not recorded her building it no one would have believed that it was a real android, let alone the fact that she built it, she really was gifted. Two years later when she found out she was born a transgender, and that her parents registered her as female, she swiftly demanded of her parents to allow for a sex change. When denied she did everything she could possibly do to make her parents change their mind. Alas to no success, she would have to wait at least three years to be legally allowed to change her sex without permission.

In 2065 she would lose a valuable member of her family, "I lost the only person who ever understood who I am" she said at her grandfather's on her father's side funeral, his name was Sans H. Burg. Every year during the first two weeks of summer since she was three, they would go down to his cottage in Wyoming and go fishing but never catch any fish. Not because they couldn't but because Sans and Sunni were vegetarians and would eat no form of meat not even fish. At the last two weeks of summer they would visit his cottage in Washington state and they would just hike every day. For her his death was a very heart wrenching time especially since it happened right after the last day of summer, a massive heart attack, he was fifty two. At seventeen years old Suni watched a life changing documentary that would put her on the path of a borderline obsession.

It was called Development of Nanites. In this movie she learned that nanites have already been developed but were sorely lacking in many areas. Using money she got from her androids she bought a lab, which she had upgraded with all the newest most advanced tech, (which was mostly made by her) and hired ten of the youngest brightest minds. She was so focused on her project to further develop nanites. It took her ten years to remember her sex change operation thus it wasn't until she was twenty seven that she became a male. During which she still continued to work on her project.

Suni changed his name to Sans which belonged to his grandfather but he still kept his middle name Galla to show his love and respect for his mother. In 2085 Sans met the love of his life, twenty four year old Marina Blanc Joans. It was with this water loving, scuba diving, entrepreneurist sky jumper that he developed a new passion. Developing new technology not for the sake of doing it, but rather to help others. With Marina, Sans would create the company Sans & Marina to sell his four greatest environmental boons at prices that would allow anyone to contribute to helping this world. The Oil Cleanser which cleans more oil spills in the sea faster and safer, the Super Solar IPhone which only needs thirty minutes in direct sunlight to charge completely, the Smart Solar Home which is made from microscopic solar panels that take in twice as much sun as those that did in 2025 and uses them more efficiently without manual control, and finally his greatest creation at the time, the Trash Car, the car that uses trash as an oil source. The upside which is also the downside is it consumes huge quantities of trash. The average trash car uses 5,000 pounds of trash a year. It was estimated that by 2150 ninety percent of the world's trash will be consumed by these trash using cars, if the amount of trash cars in use remain constant. Though Marina and Sans never had children together they did adopt a little Russian boy in 2096 and named him Alexander. Sans was a great man who lived the rest of his life as an environmentalist a humanist and an animal rights activist, put his nanite research up on a shelf for later generations, not because he did not believe he could get it done, but because he wanted to spend his life helping others by being on the scene, not behind it.

All of these things about him are wonderful, very wonderful indeed. But they are not what made Sans, Sans. Not his technology, not his physical activities, not even his desire to make the world a better place. Are they bits and pieces of it? Yes, yes they are. But they are not the thing that made him who he is. Sans was a great soccer, tennis, and volleyball player.

But no one, and I mean no one thought he would even be able to walk. Not his mother, not his father, not even his grandfather. The doctors all said the same thing. "There is nothing we can do for her. She won't make it two days." A year and two months later he was toddling like every other toddler. He lived to be 122 years old.

At eight years old he caught a deadly disease that destroyed his voice, again they said recovery was impossible. What did he do? He went out of his way to learn to speak seven languages to show them not only could he recover his health, but his voice too and that he could speak to whomever he wanted whenever. Two months after learning seven languages he was involved in a car crash that destroyed his legs.

Once again they said it was impossible he would never play sports. Two years later he was captain of the soccer team for one year then moved on to tennis and the volleyball team and he was blue belt in karate. It was his desire to go against the tide, to go against society's conventions, to go against every right and wrong answer. He would call white what society called black, only because society called it black. In middle and high school where uniforms were required he went to school every day of the week dressed up to spite those traditions.

He was a firm believer in denying everything. He said it was something humans have been doing since the dawn of man. He taught me never to fall into society's conventions, to deny societies rules, to swim against the tide even if it meant drowning in those abrasive waves of disapproval. That is what made my dad Suni G. Burg, Sans G. Burg.