someday when the machines must kill men

someday when the machine must kill men

fiction
edward w pritchard

Someday when the intelligent machines ruling the world must kill men it won't be with the violence of a firing squad, a guillotine, or a hanging by the neck till dead.

Every day for 30 a solitary pill of magnisius pulsate will be administered until the cumulative effect on the system causes the human to suffer sudden death. With mercy and efficient compassion another obsolete unit will be dispatched.

Certainly not an unpleasant way to leave the world for a soul to ingest a pill a day for thirty with time to plan and contemplate the end. Better than a Crucifixion by half it will customarily then succinctly be said.