Obituary

One of our first assignments in writing for mass communication (COM 140) was to write our own obituary.  I was able to delve into imagination because we did not have to limit ourselves to a realistic end.

This is my first obituary and I think it is a fun one. Enjoy.

Art by Edward Gorey that reminds me of death.

                                                                                                                                             James Byron Hogan, self-help author, died on Thursday in Colorado. He was 98.

He died at 7:18pm in his home from to asphyxiation after choking on a piece of chicken. This was confirmed by his publicist Abigail Holland who said, “Trixie recorded the whole ordeal. He started choking on his chicken and before Trixie could get to him, he was gone”. Trixie is one of Mr. Hogan’s Android wives.

Mr. Hogan was loved by both humans and androids.

James Hogan wrote horror fiction for many years. He accumulated over one hundred short stories, and nine novels. James did not start writing until he was 40. His two great works of non-fiction How to Love Your Android, So That It Seems to Love You Back, and  Sex, Your Robot, and You were both written after the XX Virus of 2032 wiped out more than a quarter of Earths female population.  

After the plague Hogan went into seclusion, not to be heard from again until 2043, shortly after the AI generation took hold of the world. He told the world that he had been living a satisfactory life in the mountains of Colorado, with three androids. He said that he would let the world in on his secrets of maintaining healthy relationships with their robots. He kept his promise and changed the world. His books on human and android relations were therapeutic for a lonely new world.

James was born a free man in Louisville Kentucky and moved to Rockford Illinois.

James married Kathleen Amy Farney in Las Vegas, August 12, 2000. Several Elvis impersonators witnessed the ceremony. They were happily married until Katy was taken by XXV in 2033.

After the XX Virus, and the A.I. generation boomed, James moved to Colorado to live in seclusion. There he accumulated three androids that would change his life. Jane, Trixie, and Carl were equipped with evolutionary A.I. and they became his new family. James stayed aware of his interaction and relationship with his new family and he wrote about his experiences. Americans related and praised James for his honest writing.

James started his professional career working in factories. He spent three years in the United States Army where he worked as a mechanic. At age 40 he enrolled in college. There he decided to write fiction. For many years after college he wrote a steady stream of horror fiction. His early works never became popular with the public but allowed him a comfortable life with Katy.

Hogan is survived by his two android wives Jane and Trixie, and his android son Carl. All three are 2K3281C models and will be working top download Hogan’s memory data into a new android vessel.

There will be an online memorial starting this Friday through Monday and will be hosted by the Human/Android Alliance at www.humandroid.org. Mr. Hogan donated his physical remains to the Feed America Group.

An inspiration to man and actual king of the robots. (1920-1992)