Uh oh! It looks like you died! Now what are you going to do? Nothing anymore, because you’re dead. But wait, cloning technology has advanced in the last 1200 years! We can store memories digitally at hospitals, flash clone and clone entire people identically to how they looked and behaved before! It’s just a matter of figuring out how you want to come back! Depending on your circumstances, you have a variety of options!
Over several centuries, scientists have mastered the art to cloning to the point that a full body can be grown from a viable DNA sample in a matter of hours. Of course, such a body is useless without a mind, which is typically introduced at a later stage via a form of Consciousness Transfer which will take 3 days to complete. In the case of Novakids and other energy beings, who lack DNA and possess a rather unique biology, a clone can only be made if a molecular copy of a brand is available. In that case, a new perfect molecular copy must be created, which is then jump started in a fertile energetic material bath to charge the brand, after which the charged brand is placed in a containment device that gathers cosmic energy and various gasses to form the catalyst gasses for the eventual plasma body. Bodies can be regrown as a whole or in part as needed.
Not ideal. A clone is created in a matter of a few hours, and a brain-scan is inserted into it. This results in the memories and personality being put into a rather atrophied and underdeveloped body, and in a very confused state from being so immediately cloned into existence with all of those factors. Flash clones are often hairless, wheelchair-bound and hooked up to medical machines until their body finally strengthens. Takes a while to return to normal life, plus all of the later factors in play from normal cloning down below after the atrophied clone is fully developed.
A brainscan is implemented into a simple program that simulates the patient’s consciousness to a very limited extent. They’re conscious, kind of. Buffered patients can’t focus on complex tasks and don’t have a fully intact memory. They might not respond to grieving relatives properly, and a lot of their personality is missing. The parts of the brain that control complex motion cannot be simulated, limiting the buffered patient to simple computers on wheels. They’re alive, but only barely.
Once the organic body is ready, the buffering program is terminated and they’re implemented into the more permanent body, where consciousness returns to normal.
If the individual wishes, instead of an organic body, a more personalized program may be configured to bring the patient back as an AI instead. It takes the same amount of time to prepare.
A person dies and is brought back after about three days with the vast majority of their memories and other features intact using a past brain-scan, but still not strictly “perfect”. These imperfections though can be worked through given time, and most if not all drawbacks resulting from cloning (save for emotional problems dependent on the person) will be gone within a period of two months, from memories to genetic integrity. This is done through a biological genetic therapy process, often kick-started by a hospital with access to a person’s genetic code. This process happens passively, as a person goes about their regular day-to-day routines. If someone dies a second time before this process is completed over the course of around two months, the drawbacks on the next clone will be somewhat more severe, and take more time, and more effort, to overcome.
Should an Organic want to be cloned as a Synthetic, they are typically subject to similar “neurological” symptoms upon being naturally cloned. This is typically accomplished through the use of consciousness uploading.