Well in the movie Logan's Run they has a life limitation of 30 years old. Then the 30 year olds were expected to enter a domed theatre to be elevated to their death.

Personally I support Death With Dignity (Euthenasia) and my state is the only state that protects doctor's assisting suicide for people with painful terminal illness. It is a very personal matter for me. I have a friend who with her husband has moved to my state because of our laws. But offering suicide pill or death chambers are not the answer. Reducing the population through education, economic incentives, raising the quality of life in the "developing world" and encouraging adoption should be priority. In societies where women become the focus for education population increases tend to slowdown and even decline. The reason is numerous such as that college and university tends to be the peak age of reproductive females; females recieving functional education tend to wish to create a career hence a delay in reproduction and finally when then choose to have children they tend to want to give the best of their economic power to just two children. Where as reproduction is countries where life expendency is low families reproduce hoping that one of the seven, eight or nine children will survive. Also children in the "third world" often are seen as a new set of hands to bring in money for the family where as "post industrial" countries tend to see their children has inheretors of the parents' privelege.

So would I support "disintegration chamber" well... its not part of my culture. I will add that that Star Trek eposode is roughly based on a real society. Many Meso-American tribes specifically the Aztecs practiced a form of warfare called "Burning-Water". The aim was not to kill your enemy, but to capture them alive for sacrifice later on to the Gods. An Aztec would see the Western model of warfare as barbaric, because their prisoners (in theory) were treated like Gods because they were thought to be sent to the Gods as messangers. Prisoners were offered prostitues, lots of food and treated with respect. Then taken to the alter to have their hearts ripped out and shown them as they died and then their corpse kicked down the steps of sun pyramid. An Aztec could easily look at the Western war machines as cruel beyond any thing they could do. They would say the intentional blowing off of faces, limbs and causing of over all suffering as an act of a barbarian. The devastation of cities, prime farm land and the disrespect of the honored enemy as something the Gods would find repulsive.