No long until it is forced euthanasia/organ harvesting . With increasingly minor crimes getting the death penalty. Got to keep the organ banks full.
Larry Niven wrote about this.
Where are ‘increasingly minor crimes’ receiving the death penalty?
“It is reported that, with assisted suicide, the process of dying is slower due to the cause of death being the oral ingestion of a fatal drug, rather than the intravenous injection used for euthanasia.”
Excellent news for those concerned about drugs used for the death penalty. It’s good for the death penalty if it’s good for voluntary euthanasia.
1970s. Enjoyable stories at the time, but I never took it for prognostication.
He wrote that one the method of transplanting organs from anyone to anyone was perfected, the demand would lead to the death penalty and dissembling of the convicted bodies for traffic offences.