Title: The Bitter Pill
First published: 1974
Description: To Paul Clayton, obscure shipping clerk, his forty-fifth birthday was not an occasion for celebration. It meant the achievement of status of senior citizen, and with it several dubious privileges - not least of which was voluntary euthanasia, facilitated by the government-issue suicide pill.
Subjects: Ditmar Award, Fiction, science fiction, general
Time periods: Near future
LC classification: PZ4.C4552 Bi, PR6053.H325 Bi