Soylent Verde

The movie Soylent Green was a bleak dystopian movie. As a film, it was very dull, slow-paced, and it scarcely seemed that the first half hour or so had any real point. However, it was a clear depiction of a future that could very well happen. The rich controlled the vast majority of the wealth and had pleasant lives. There was a massively overpopulated city where the poor lived, cramped, hungry, and unhappy. The environment was so badly damaged that real food was scarce, leaving the plebian masses to consume Soylent Green, a food made from the bodies of the dead. There were so few satisfying jobs available that some people sold themselves out as furniture, living basically as whores in the houses of the rich. There was so much disappointment with what society had become that there were public facilities for committing suicide (and afterwards being turned into Soylent Green). I can imagine a future society like this, however I doubt there will ever be a public suicide facility. Depressing as things would be, Christianity is so deeply rooted in our country that suicide would probably not be as accepted.