In the dystopian short story “2BRO2B”, written by Kurt Vonnegut in 1962, we meet Mr. Edward K. Wehling, Jr. sits in the hospital waiting room alone as his wife gives birth to their triplets. The only other person in the room is a 200-year-old painter who looks only 35, working on a mural of a garden meant.
. The writer is focusing on setting questionnaire on a “perfect world with population control, no war and no diseases.” We see the dilemma with birth control, witch Mr. Wehling is not a fan of.
Edward K. Wehling is 56 years of age, and lives in the city of Chicago. In a world where people live up to 200 years of age, Wehling is a young man, and that is probably also the reason, the couple get pregnant in that age. “Wehling was fifty-six, a mere stripling in a population whose average age was one hundred and twenty-nine.” Mr. Wehling is really upset, because of the birth regulation. In order for his triplets to live, three people have to die. In the end he ends up killing Leora Duncan, Dr. Hitz and at last he commits suicide. After witnessing this, the painter is considering the planet’s situation, and he goes down the stepladder, picks up the revolver and is ready to shoot himself, when he changes his mind, walks over to the phone and dials ‘’2BR02B’’. "2BR02B," is the phone number one must dial to reach an assisted suicide parlor, is a rephrasing of Hamlet's iconic question, to be or not to be.
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