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A good fable, I’m reminded of a tale of the other side of curing aging: The Arc of Scythe by Neal Shusterman. To give a brief overview: A utopia in which humanity has cured permanent death and is managed by an AI, with the role of providing death given to a chosen host, tasked to maintain population growth.

Frankly, it’s a YA series with some disappointing characterizations, but it decently addresses the challenge of immortality on a global scale.

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I've always assumed that overpopulation could be prevented by limiting families to two children. Is this not the case in the novel(s)?

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No, not at all. It’s a bit implied, there’s a few references to children only having a single sibling but it’s not a codified rule. Life largely went on as usual, but a lack of death and the benevolent god AI changed things up interestingly.

The three novels take place hundreds of years after the established of the new way of living, there’s interesting insights about the repercussions of a deathless society and what it changes for the more extreme ends of entertainment.