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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
I also find it interesting that they are taught to refer to death as "completion." It's sort of a fun-house mirror version of the heroic quest. Their purpose is literally completed by their death.
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But I wonder to what extent this is litotes, the completion that isn't. Because there's the sense of something "after" completion, which would be worse, far worse, than the sentient lives of the clones before completion. And it seems as if the things that the clones "know" on a deeper level turn out to be so.
In short, they might have learned to refer to it as completion because of the false comfort it provides, suggesting an absolute end instead of a nebulous continued existence as their tissues and organs continue to be harvested.
In that case, it would be part of the specialized vocabulary where standard English words have been corrupted to imply the reverse of actuality, to provide a gloss on the clones' reality, such as student, guardian, possible, and so forth. The students learn nothing, the guardians don't tend to their charges, the possible is impossible.