What If Pain Could Be Downloaded?

In the future, “Lotus Petal” technology is all the rage: the rich upload their pain in exchange for perfect lives, while the poor download pain to make a living. I’m a top-tier “pain bearer,” able to endure the most intense physical agony, until I accept an outrageously lucrative order: to download three minutes of the pain of dying. Hidden within the agony is a forgotten memory of death and heartbreak. Only then do I realize that what we trade has never been pain, but humanity and memories with a price tag on them.