Talk:Broken Heart/@comment-1674153-20190513235549/@comment-28082245-20190515081501

To start this off the characters are fictional, the idea for the artifact came from a story where a man received a heart from a suicide victim. Meets and marries the donor’s widow only to die in the same way later. For the narrative I created Miller as a doctor couldn’t allow himself to willingly kill something that was still alive. Add to the depression that he went a bit crazy or what not. Then again he grew up believing a human heart would soon die if not transplanted yet this one still beats. I’m not positive why two weeks though, the two deaths in the news article were twelve years apart so it might have been that I wished for it not to be that long.

Now this might just be me thinking about it now but I think I remember wanting the heart to not want to be alive in a person, thus killing the host itself. I feel like that’s not quite right thought. There is something called Cellular Memory Phenomenon where people’s personalities change after organ transplants, so maybe the heart got the original host (Packard) to kill himself, then when put in another host causes the same intense depression even though if a person wanted the transplant to survive and does indeed survive usually they feel happy to be alive.