The Thanatos Solution: A Cautionary Tale about the Near Dystopian Future
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
Just a few years down the road, the new health-care plan is firmly entrenched. A new bill, Ethical Assessment of End-of Life Care, has also been enacted into law. And the authorities are ruthlessly implementing it throughout the land – no more medical resources wasted on the defective and dying, equitable distribution of quality medical care, no more lingering half-lives sustained by expensive machinery. The "thanatos solution" has arrived.
But there are, as always, unexpected ramifications, especially for those who wanted it.
The woman knows her incontinent, disabled father is scheduled for imminent termination. It makes sense for him. But then she learns that her son is afflicted with a terminal condition. And things change.
So this woman will soon learn that there is a far older, wider-reaching Thanatos Solution – one that is usually the only viable solution.
"The Thanatos Solution: A Cautionary Tale about the Near Dystopian Future" is a short story, approximately 3,200 words.
Customer Reviews
Good tale, expected more at the end.
In a world where it's up to the government to get rid of the ones who can be saved could be stated as the conservative view on the healthcare dealings happening now in the US.
Hearing's cautionary tale takes a look at a mother follows the government on allowing the sick and old to be dealt with (assisted suicide?) when it comes to her ailing father but the phone call pertaining to her son shows the warped scary side of "The Thanatos Solution".
I would have categorized this more as a speculative dystopian but either way it was an enjoyable story.
The end was unexpected but not hard hitting. I expected something more or different.
I would suggest this for my fellow speculative readers but I'm not all to enthused about it. It's a good conversation piece but not a favorite read.