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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

There's also the terrific book, Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley, a book I bought on a whim when killing time in a college bookstore with a tiny sci-fi section and have since recommended to many people who thanked me for the recommendation.

The concept is that in the future, it is discovered that there is an afterlife, but only a very small number of people can get there naturally. So a medical procedure is developed that allows people to get to the afterlife. However, only the wealthy can afford it. Once their afterlife is guaranteed (things can go wrong, but that's another issue), they do things like start hacking people to death in the streets to commit suicide-by-cop because what have they got to lose?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality,_Inc.

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