On the day the last 123 million humans stopped breathing, Earth was sailing past the Oort Cloud. The planetary engines kept pushing dutifully, while the AI named "Night Watcher" carefully transferred the last batch of fertilized eggs into cryogenic pods at absolute zero, on a wasteland two hundred degrees below zero. It began playing an ancient recording made on the eve of departure. A human woman's voice said, "After we die, please remember that we loved this world."
