The Suicide Pod: A Short Story

Life's hard, but death ain't free...

In a near-future America ruled by economic despair and advanced automation, suicide has been monetized—it's now a lucrative, commission-based industry run by companies like Anubis Technologies, the largest stateside conglomerate dealing in 'transitional services'. Robert Price, an end-of-life representative, excels at his position, arranging and overseeing legal deaths that promise to end the nightmare. Robert's stable, middle-class life is afforded by mi...