User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-26362471-20190511055007/@comment-4867780-20190517002457

The original human was absorbed into the shard during the merging process that gave birth to Lawrence, so you could say he technically die at that moment. Lawrence recreated him afterwards via the data acquired along the way, and returned him to his family with no memory of the event (he died instantly so there was nothing to remember).

Lawrence has been watching over them and their descendants ever since, in gratitude for the human's coincidental part in granting him sentience and identity.