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A suicide booth is a fictional machine for committing suicide. Suicide booths appear in numerous fictional settings, including the American animated series ''Futurama'' and the manga ''Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita''. Compulsory self-execution booths were also featured in an episode of the original ''Star Trek'' TV series entitled "A Taste of Armageddon". The concept can be found as early as 1893. When a series of suicides were vigorously discussed in United Kingdom newspapers, critic William Archer suggested that in the golden age there would be penny-in-the-slot machines by which a man could kill himself. Modern writer Martin Amis provoked a small controversy in January 2010 when he advocated "suicide booths" for the elderly, of whom he wrote: ==Early mentions== Following Archer's statement in 1893, the 1895 story ''The Repairer of Reputations'' by Robert W. Chambers featured the Governor of New York presiding over the opening of the first "Government Lethal Chamber" in the then-future year of 1920, after the repeal of laws against suicide: However, as the protagonist who relates the story is suffering from brain damage, it remains ambiguous whether these are a result of his delusions or real. In Robert Sheckley's ''Immortality, Inc.'' (1959), the protagonist wakes up in an unfamiliar future and, while wandering dazed in a starkly changed New York, finds himself in what he thinks might be a bread line, but turns out to be a line for the suicide booths. In the movie ''Freejack'' (loosely based on ''Immortality, Inc.''), suicide booths are not shown, but advertisements for suicide-assistance services are visible against the city skyline. In Ivan Efremov's 1968 novel ''The Bull's Hour'', suicide booths are referred to as the "palaces of tender death" ((ロシア語:Дворцы нежной смерти)). They're commonly used on the planet Tormance to control population growth. Kurt Vonnegut's "purple-roofed Ethical Suicidal Parlors" appear in two stories: "Welcome to the Monkey House" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater". In these Ethical Suicide Parlors, a patron receives a free meal in the adjoining Howard Johnson's diner before committing suicide. It is considered a citizen's patriotic duty to commit suicide, again as a means of population control. In John Christopher's novel ''The City of Gold and Lead'', human slaves in the aliens' domed cities voluntarily use the "Place of Happy Release" when they are no longer able to serve. The slave is killed instantly and then cremated. While not a booth, suicide chambers are used to allow people to choose a pleasant form of euthanasia in the movie ''Soylent Green''. The character Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson) leaves a note saying that he is "going home," a euphemism for committing state-approved suicide via a large, well-appointed, attended suicide chamber. Music and a video chosen by the client are played while he or she waits for the drugs to take their fatal effect. Roth chooses Ludwig van Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony and a video of Earth's natural wonders and scenes of pastoral beauty. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「suicide booth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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