I've been reading a great manga lately that seems interesting and portrays an unusual concept. It's called Ikigami(Death Notice) and not it's not the same as death note XD here it is: http://www.1000manga.com/Ikigami/ I takes place in an alternate reality in japan in which something called the National Prosperity Preservation Act is put into effect in which in grade 1 of school children would get "The National Affairs Injection". In ever 1 out of 1,000 there is a capsule that is set to rapture in that one persons heart and cause them to die. The date of this is predetermined between the ages of 18 and 24. The person is only notified 24 hours before the date of their death through a deliver specifically employed to deliver the Ikigami or death notices as said above. The act was Passed to get people to respect and value life and live a full life in order to allow for society to prosper. I would keep saying more except i think it's best explained in the manga itself. I want to know what you think if something like that was passed all over the world now and what you would do if you had received an Ikigami with 24 hourse to live.
What a cold and cruel way of population control I can't ever imagine the world passing something like that...seems straight out of a sci-fi (with either Tom Cruise or Leonardo DiCaprio of course) I suppose though if I had 24 hours to live I would try to get heart surgery (it would probably be illegal to remove the capsule though) or figure out some way to disable it (electric shock?) ...if all else fails, I'll just live the last days of my life out... This seems extremely interesting. Terrible. Dark. But interesting.
I haven't even described some of the worst things about it. The series itself is done episodes and three chapters are an episode of the 24 hours of someone's life which are sometimes extremely dark.
