[ WP ] Humanity has achieved immortality . Due to resource concerns everyone must submit to a council their chosen manner of death at 150 . The more amusing the death the longer the council lets you live .

Time seemed to have less meaning now than it used to. The technological advances had peaked 60 years ago and nothing had been invented in a long time. Now life was a mishmash of decadent experiences and selfish goals. Life itself had taken new meaning at the end of the last century. No disease, slowed ageing, cloned replacements for injured body parts, the troubles written about in the classics seemed non existent now. The classics were the only study material required of children nowadays. The six books that encompassed the known history of mankind, even though the evidence of their long lost places was long lost to the world. Pinnochio was my favourite, a tale about animatrons if I recall correctly, although the Hobbit was a fascinating tale of a lost land. 
 
 One side effect of the lengthened lifespan was overcrowding. Another was a series of inconvenient mass suicides that had taken weeks to clear off of the streets and a had caused quite a stink, in more ways than one. The death licence was first to come about, the administrators hefting pricey fines on the families of people who died without one. That was followed quickly by lawyers working out Pre-Nec's for planning deaths far in advance and the advent of a popular new game amongst the Necro-Legislat's junior clerks. The game far too fun to be contained, had quickly spread to the Television and the producers having new-founded powers following the EngTraz embargo seized on a way to merge this with the issues of overcrowding sweeping all of the continents. 
 
 The results came in the form of Euthinaid-123 a popular World-Gov decision that every citizen had to be judged at the age of 150 on the merit of their life to justify their continued existence. The name followed up with a show of the same name: Euthinaid Live would now show across the world for 3 hours every day. The typical show followed a set plan. An hour of introductions to each of the nights contestants and an hour of filler as votes are entered and compiled. The best death plan would gain the person an extra 30 years, next best 20 years and third place earned themselves 10 years. The rest of the finalists would be killed quickly, often in large blenders set up along the stage for effect. The filler content usually includes a montage of the best of that weeks deaths. The more exiting ones often included being thrown into volcanoes and fed to genetically engineered giant guinea pigs. 
 
 The last hour of the show took a slightly more interesting turn. Live on tv the crew would choose 10 immigrants from the holding tanks along one of the more affluent countries borders and one of them would earn a visa. The others would be killed for entertainment of course, but that's what sells to viewers. 
 
 You may be wondering why I'm telling you all of this sir? Well. That's because before your Alzheimers set in you sent in an application for this show. Just follow the producer now sir and try to relax.
