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death-insurance

A futuristic insurance policy that guarantees the insuree's right to remain dead by preventing unauthorized reanimation.

1 chapter across 1 book

HARD SELL (1972)Piers Anthony

CHAPTER 5

In this chapter, Yola and Fisk receive a job offer from the Death Insurance Agency (DIA), which protects individuals' rights to remain dead by preventing unwanted reanimation. They undertake a covert mission to Exotic Disposals, Inc., a company involved in corpse processing, where Fisk poses as a salesman to introduce a product while Yola sneaks through the facility to gather intelligence. The chapter explores the futuristic concept of death insurance and the ethical implications of enforced death in a society capable of reanimation.