A 'Stop and drop' style Suicide Booth on Futurama

A suicide booth is a fictional machine for committing suicide. Suicide booths appear in the Japanese manga Gunm/Battle Angel Alita and the American animated series Futurama, while compulsory self-execution booths were featured in one episode of the original Star Trek TV series. Image File history File links Suicide_Booth. ... Image File history File links Suicide_Booth. ... Futurama is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen for the Fox Network. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ... 2nd English edition of InuYasha Vol. ... Battle Angel Alita, known in Japan as GUNNM (銃夢), is a manga series created by Yukito Kishiro in 1991 which ended in 1995. ... Battle Angel Alita, called GUNNM (銃夢 lit. ... Futurama is an animated American cartoon series created by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen (also a writer for The Simpsons). ... Star Trek is an American science fiction franchise. ...

In the world of Futurama, Stop'n'Drop suicide booths claim to have been America's favorite suicide booth since 2008. Stop'n'Drop suicide booths have two modes of death: "quick and painless", and "slow and horrible". "Quick and painless" is not shown, while "slow and horrible" involves a variety of drills, bone-saws, power tools, and ends with a single thrust of a knife that is then twisted. The machine then cheerfully informs its user, "You are now dead. Thank you for using Stop'n'Drop Suicide Booths." Each use costs a quarter. See also: List of Futurama gadgets. Futurama is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen for the Fox Network. ... The quarter is 1/4th of a United States dollar or 25 cents. ... This is a list of fictional gadgets featured in the television series Futurama. ...

The first appearance of a suicide booth in Futurama is in the first episode, in which Bender wants to use it, after he had found out the girders he used to bend were used for suicide booths. After meeting Fry, who at first mistook a suicide booth for a phone booth, he decides not to commit suicide. Bender Bending Rodríguez, more commonly known as Bender (assembled c. ... This article or section may need to be cleaned up and rewritten because it describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ... For the 2002 movie, see Phone Booth (movie). ...

In other stories

In Robert Sheckley's "Immortality, Inc." (1958), the protagonist wakes up in an unfamiliar future and while wandering dazed by 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. Unlike in Futurama, however, the service appears to be free. Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was an American Jewish author. ... Immortality, Inc. ... ). Categories: Stub ...

In the Star Trek: The Original Series 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 that is calculated as "dead" in the hypothetical thermonuclear war simulated using computers actually dies, 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 peace begins. The starship Enterprise as it appeared on Star Trek Star Trek is a culturally significant science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry in the 1960s. ... A Taste of Armageddon is a first season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. ... In the Star Trek science fiction universe, Eminiar VII was the principal planet of star cluster NGC 321. ...

While not a booth, suicide chambers are used to allow people to choose a pleasant form of euthanasia in the movie Soylent Green. Euthanasia (from Greek: ευθανασία -ευ, eu, good, θανατος, thanatos, death) is the practice of terminating the life of a person or an animal because they are perceived as living an intolerable life, in a painless or minimally painful way either by lethal injection, drug overdose, or by the withdrawal of life support. ... Soylent Green is a 1973 science fiction movie starring Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joseph Cotten and Chuck Connors. ...

The concept can by found as early as the 1895 story "The Repairer of Reputations" by Robert W. Chambers, in which the Governor of New York presides over the opening of the first "Government Lethal Chamber" in New York City in the future year of 1920, following the repeal of laws against suicide: "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." (...) 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." Robert W. Chambers (May 26, 1865 - December 16, 1933) was an American artist and writer. ... This is a list of the Governors of New York. ... Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Manhattan Queens Brooklyn Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ...

In Ivan Efremov's The Bull's Hour a similar idea of suicide booths referred to as the Palaces of tender death (Russian: Дворцы нежной смерти). They're commonly used on the Planet Tormance to control the birth rate. Ivan Antonovich Efremov (Иван Антонович Ефремов) (1907-1972) was a Russian science fiction author. ... The Bulls Hour (Russian: , Tchas Bika) is a science fiction novel written by Russian author and paleontologist Ivan Efremov in 1968. ...