“The Obsolete Man” is episode 65 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone, starring Burgess Meredith as Romney Wordsworth. ...”
In a future totalitarian state, Romney Wordsworth is put on trial for being obsolete. His professed occupation as a librarian is punishable by death as the State has eliminated books.
He believes in God, also proof of obsolescence, as the State claims to have proven God does not exist.
Following a bitter exchange, the Chancellor finds Wordsworth guilty and sentences him to death, allowing him to choose his method of execution.”
if in choosing his own death could he had asked execution by dying of old age?