When Anne turned 75, she was made redundant from her job at a hotel in Kent after guests complained that it made them sad to see elderly people working. With no family, no savings to fall back on, or any pension to speak of, she saw no other way out than to sign up for a voluntary scheme for elderly citizens where you can get a one-off grant. The catch? She needed to agree to be euthanised.
Of course her name is not really Anne and she’s not really from the southeast of England — this is the plot of Plan 75, a dystopian film set in Japan where citizens aged 75 and over are granted the right to an assisted death to remedy
