Larry Niven : There were organ banks all over the world, inadequately supplied by people kind enough to will their bodies to medical science. How useful is the body of a man who dies of old age? How fast can you reach a car accident? And in 2043, Arkansas, which had never rescinded the death penalty, made the organ banks the official state method of execution. The idea had spread like wildfire .... like a moral plague, as one critic of the time had put it. # Death and Dying # Critics and Criticism # Age and Aging