Set in a futuristic world, there exists an agency called the Federal Bureau of Termination. An agency with the purpose of balancing the scales of a society which has conquered most societal issues, including old age.
The short story for this episode will be "2 B R 0 2 B", by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the January 1962 issue of If: Worlds of Science Fiction.
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