In a future where death is volunteered and the population is controlled, a soon-to-be father waits for his triplets to be born—and he must find three volunteers to die in order for them to live.

Eventually it came to pass that no one ever had to die, unless they ran out of money. Then, unless they were so horrible that society had to dispose of them. Then, unless wanted to or could be talked into it. Then, no one would die so long as they had just one person who loved them.

Professor gives a talk about the human appetite for death

After a horrific accident, Bernadette agrees to upload her consciousness to a memory server and discard her physical form. She's determined to murder her father's mind, also housed in the same server.

A man tells his life story leading up to his suicide, attempting to explain the seemingly-inescapable mental paradoxes he found himself facing in his quest to be an authentic person, which reinforced, time after time, his belief that he was a fraud.

After his death, a Judge converses with an old friend and a philosopher about the reality of an afterlife and grapples with the idea of regaining people he’s missed his entire life.

In an alternate world, a hermit staves off death by jumping from body to body. He is one of the last of his kind.

In a world where immortality has become the norm for humans, two men attempt to introduce an old-fashioned tribe to eternal life.

When a bus is taken hostage, a woman comes to terms with her death.

To cut costs during the mid-21st century financial crisis, a biotech company promising immortality disposed of some of its cryogenically preserved bodies. But one of its employees secretly held on to one of these bodies—a young woman who died of cancer in her twenties—and has been obsessed with taking care of her ever since.