Basic Trope: In the future, euthanasia is both legal and socially acceptable.
- Straight: In the year 3000, euthanasia is practiced openly and with little to no social pushback for it.
- Exaggerated: Euthanasia is the norm in this future society, to the point where it's actively encouraged.
- Downplayed: Euthanasia is legal under extreme circumstances, but not under any others.
- Justified:
- This future society values consent above all else, and so would not coerce someone to keep living if he doesn't want to.
- This society doesn’t place much value on life in general and doesn’t consider death to be a bad thing, let alone something to avoid.
- This society is overpopulated and uses euthanasia in conjuncture with sterilization and birth control to stem the tide of their growth.
- This society is a Crapsack World where life is miserable for all but the elites, so as a result a large portion of people seek to
- Inverted: Not only is euthanasia illegal, but this future society uses technology to bring offenders Back from the Dead. Everyone lives forever, whether they like it or not.
- Subverted:
- Bob, the temporally-displaced hero, at first thinks this is the case. However he quickly discovers that the euthanasia in this society is forced and that the people taken away for it often don't want to die.
- Double Subverted:
- It turns out some people were pulling a cruel joke on Bob, and that euthanasia in this society isn't forced.
- Parodied: There are all sorts of silly ways for someone to euthanize themselves, such as by Roller Coaster
. - Zig-Zagged: Only some countries in the future have legal euthanasia, other countries forbid it with extreme prejudice.
- Averted: Euthanasia is never mentioned at all in this book.
- Enforced:
- The author supports euthanasia and wants to show how legalizing it will improve society.
- The author opposes euthanasia and wants to show how legalizing it will be detrimental to society.
- Lampshaded: A futurist in the present predicts this trope, only for his friend to criticize him for a lack of imagination and for making cliché predictions.
- Invoked: A group within a future society tries to push for this social change.
- Exploited: An underground slave ring kidnaps people from euthanasia clinics before they can undergo the procedure, betting on the fact that everyone already expects these individuals to have gone missing.
- Defied: A new administration in the future society's government bans euthanasia and retroactively charges the clinic operators with murder.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
