Um conto do autor japonês Otsuichi, a história é chamada ' Song of the Sunny Spot '. Nesta história, uma pessoa artificial é criada para manter a companhia e eventualmente enterrar alguém que parece ser a última pessoa na terra até a sua morte.
Um resumo da história pode ser encontrado no quarto parágrafo no seguinte link: link
My favorite story of the batch, “Song of the Sunny Spot”, has the simplicity of a fairy tale and some of the same insight-through-the-fantastic as Stanisław Lem’s best work. The last man on earth has created a robot to bury him when he dies, but there is a great deal more going on besides that, and in the end the robot learns that to be fully human means to contain contradiction, to have both love and hate for the same things at once. It’s beautiful and elegiac, the kind of story I could see being adapted into an animated production by the likes of Makoto (5 cm/sec) Shinkai.