In his short story "2BR02B", Kurt Vonnegut criticizes the way most people in society want to live forever. He makes it seem like the cure for old age brought on a perfect society by describing in the beginning of the story how "Everything was perfectly swell" but we learn by the end how grim things would really be if "All diseases were conquered and so was old age" like in the story. Kurt Vonnegut's story makes it clear that we all die for a reason and that we should not seek out that fountain of youth we all long for. In "2BR02B" the population was controlled and in order for someone new to be born someone else would have to volunteer to die in order to keep the population at a constant number. If we all lived in a world where we had to wait for someone to get bored of living in order to be born then not that many people would ever get a chance at life. Kurt Vonnegut's criticism of society is that we should not fear death because death itself is actually making room for new life.