the star trek episode "a taste of armageddon", people who were deemed war casualties by the government of eminiar vii were required to enter suicide booths. treaty arrangements require that everyone who is calculated as "dead" in the hypothetical thermonuclear war simulated using computers actually die, without actually damaging any infrastructure. in the end, the computers are destroyed, the war can no longer be calculated in this way, the treaty breaks down, and faced with a real threat, (presumably) peace begins. after the heaven's gate mass suicide event was linked by tabloids to an extreme fascination with science fiction and star trek in particular it was noted that multiple episodes, including "a taste of armageddon", actually advocated an anti-suicide standpoint as opposed to the viewpoint expressed by the heaven's gate group. in the seventeenth season the simpsons episode "million dollar abie", a suicide machine called a "diepod" (a pun on the ipod) is featured. the diepod allows the patient to choose visual and auditory themes that present themselves as the patient is killed. it also shows three different modes, namely, "quick painless death", "slow and painful death", and "megadeath" (a pun on a band of a similarly spelled name). it was a reference to the suicide building in soylent green. being a direct parody of the aforementioned scene, abraham simpson receives the opportunity to select his final vision and musical accompaniment: 1960s-era footage of "cops beatin' up hippies" to the tune of "pennsylvania 6-5000" by the glenn miller orchestra.