All the blah-blah about euthanasia reminds me to put "living will" on my to-do list. Then all of a sudden "Soylent Green" pops into my head. That 1973 dystopia flick described a world that had turned into an urban industrial wasteland where overcrowding and other human predations had all but snuffed out normal agriculture, the population surviving on various synthetic foods.
In this ugly unhappy state, people were free to decide when life was no longer worth living. All they had to do was show up at a facility where they would be taken care of painlessly. As an enticement, they were led to a theater which was the only place they could watch films of what life was like before. Edward G.
Robinson's character sat in rapture as giraffes, zebras and gazelles strut across the savannah, and flocks of bird migrate over lush forests and lakes....
Animal Planet, anyone?
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