Maker of suicide pod plans to launch in Switzerland https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59577162
https://upload.wikimedia.org/Sarco-device
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sarco-suicide-capsule--passes-legal-review--in-switzerland/46966510
The Sarco suicide pod aims to take assisted dying out of doctors' hands with A.I... https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/12/08/the-sarco-suicide-pod-aims-to-take-assisted-dying-out-of-doctors-hands
So a person can go into a Sarco_pod or be placed into one in order to put them out of their misery. Perhaps a series of disintegration chambers can eventually be developed as well. Just like something out of a Star Trek episode. https://thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2021/02/05/star-trek-a-taste-of-armageddon-kill-the-people-not-the-places
Indeed, what if AI determines that too many people have used up too many of their arbitrary carbon credits? Thus, a selected amount of people occasionally have a certain amount of time to enter a disintegration chamber, or be hunted down by drones and robotic exterminators.
There certainly is a compelling argument for people that want to have the right to die in order to end their suffering. However, if humanity should ever totally allow AI to occasionally cull the herd, the most inhuman consequences will likely become the result.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Nitschke#Euthanasia_techniques
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/suicide-machine-sarco-euthenasia-assisted-dying-b1970685.html
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon_(episode)
This is such a symbolically powerful episode. Just change the story to be about the war on overpopulation which needs to be run by an AI planetary management system. If any control system, becomes too obsessed with reducing carbon, eventually the reduction of human carbon units might become its ultimate objective.
"The Enterprise encounters a planet that has been waging war with a neighboring planet for 500 years. To prevent damage to infrastructure, they've been "attacking" and calculating "casualties" via computer. Everyone on the planet has a fanatical devotion to the plan, to the point that "casualties" willingly commit suicide to uphold it." https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/StarTrekS1E23ATasteOfArmageddon
