for his wife, who is giving birth to triplets. Wehling must decide which two of his triplets must die, along with his grandfather, in order to not tip the scale of world population.
Much like George Orwell's Fahrenheit 451, Vonnegut's story uses the setting of a futuristic supposed utopia to expose the blindness and arrogance of its citizens. These people have cheated death by finding cures and solutions to any malady one could face in their lifetime. It's in this state of invincibility that they…
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