In the beginning of the story I immediately started thinking about families in the movies, in which the father is a scientist and never has any time for his children or his wife. And in my mind I heard the wife saying to his husband,"Have you no soul?".
Thinking about your story even more makes me reach a point in which I think having a soul is still good. Sure, if it ends by you being a battery (Matrix reference, I presume?), then it's kinda bad, but on the other hand - you get to have a wonderful life. You wouldn't even know that you're a battery in the end. I, personally, feel satisfied with the fact that I hopefully don't have to see what's going on in the afterlife.
Anyway - thank you for the wonderful story! It really made my mind work on higher speeds.
All those soulless scientists... :P
Glad you enjoyed the story!