Talk:Suicide booth

Merge discussion

Regarding merging this article into Futurama (tv series)
I've checked out that article and it's related pages and it seems to be run pretty tightly---I can't see where exactly this would fit in without creating an entirely new section that would have to be devoted to other objects of note from the series or perhaps series trivia or a section on features of the culture of Earth within the realm of Futurama.

It occurs to me that if more information were added to this article about suicide booths from the comic it also references, Battle Angel Alita, then this article would have more reason to stand on it's own. It seems the easiest way to go. Additionally, I don't think this article is even linked in the Futurama article, another clue that there might not be room or need for this merger despite the related subject matter.
23:11, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
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• Some mention also needs to be made in the article about the ST:TOS episode A Taste of Armageddon (or, alternately, about the planet Eminiar VII) where a device of this type figured prominently. knoodelhed 1 July 2005 11:38 (UTC)

• I don't think "Suicide Booths" are unique to Futurama. See the short story by Robert Chambers, "The Repairer of Reputations" (published in "The King in Yellow", 1895):

"In the following winter began that agitation for the repeal of the laws prohibiting suicide which bore its final fruit in the month of April, 1920, when the first Government Lethal Chamber was opened on Washington Square." ... "The Governor was finishing his reply to the short speech of the Surgeon-General. I heard him say: "The laws prohibiting suicide and providing punishment for any attempt at self-destruction have been repealed. The Government has seen fit to acknowledge the right of man to end an existence which may have become intolerable to him, through physical suffering or mental despair. It is believed that the community will be benefited by the removal of such people from their midst. Since the passage of this law, the number of suicides in the United States has not increased. Now that the Government has determined to establish a Lethal Chamber in every city, town and village in the country, it remains to be seen whether or not that class of human creatures from whose desponding ranks new victims of self-destruction fall daily will accept the relief thus provided." He paused, and turned to the white Lethal Chamber. The silence in the street was absolute. "There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life. If death is welcome let him seek it there." Then quickly turning to the military aid of the President's household, he said, "I declare the Lethal Chamber open," and again facing the vast crowd he cried in a clear voice: "Citizens of New York and of the United States of America, through me the Government declares the Lethal Chamber to be open."

Re: "apparent absence of an AI"

I thought that was part of a joke. Fry mistakenly thinks the suicide booth is a telephone booth and asks to make a collect call, after which the booth replies that he has chosen "slow and horrible"; the humorous implication is that this is the form of death most similar to the experience of a collect call, and the AI in the suicide booth knew this. B7T 00:20, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

• I belive that aswell was the pun Deuxhero 22:56, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• It's believable, but on the other hand, this could be seen as a pun on the fact that voice recognition by computers tends to be poor. 65.95.157.80 05:26, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Star Trek Episode

Is A Taste of Armageddon (TOS episode) the Star Trek episode mentioned? Are there any more episodes that have suicide booths? --Shanedidona 19:21, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

• Oops, nevermind. I saw that A Taste of Armageddon (TOS episode) is mentioned later in the article. --Shanedidona 19:23, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Why has the suicide booth been invented between 2006 and 2008? 2008 is clear, but what about the date 2006? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.134.145.6 (talk • contribs)

Yeah, that does seem to be fabricated. No one's cited it. I'll RM it. -- Digital Watches 08:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

reorganized

The previous AfD suggested that this article be reorganized to de-emphasize the use in Futurama and to better show that this is an oft used fictional device. I think this format will lend itself more to adding content. I made Futurama and Star trek their own sections as those are the two major franchises represented here and they had the most detailed information. Other sections should be added and removed as necessary depending on how the article grows (obviously). Stardust8212 18:04, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

In Reality...

closed garages with running automobiles. As seen in, for instance, the movie Sabrina —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.251.194.18 (talk) 22:25, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

A similar method appears at Escape from New York

Were prisoners heading to the island can choose to kill themselves in electric chairs put one side to another to avoid going to the island —Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.208.137.21 (talk) 18:37, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Retail snuff at warehouse prices

Suicide parlors as a commercial endeavor (Way Out) appear in some of Somtow Sucharitkul's "Mallworld" stories. Asat (talk) 09:08, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Another SF short story from the 1950's related to this theme

DP, by Arthur Dekker Savage. Can be found at Project Gutenberg, ebook No. 30305. Published September 1954 in If Worlds of Science Fiction. The title of the story, "DP", is short for "Departure Permit", which is a euphemism for a permit for one to be allowed to utilize the services at the City Department of Euthanasia. 173.55.251.44 (talk) 09:01, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

References

Lack of remains being cleaned up

In Star Trek, the unsightly remains were at least disintegrated and the resulting atoms were whisked away through ventilation at the top of the booth. However in the Futurama booths there can be a twisting spear rammed through the customer, or some other method which leaves remains.

I'm wondering if the popular culture where suicide booths are covered have ever made any mention of how the remains are disposed of and whether the extant article might benefit from their mention. Damotclese (talk) 21:37, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

wtf with all these "citation needed" when the source is explicitly stated?

should one point the exact page of an exact publication of, say, "immortality inc" or "the hour of bull" or what? and what about the movie, if it is in the movie, how does one point at that exact moment? 93.88.216.35 (talk) 02:27, 11 August 2017 (UTC)