In Fates Worse Than Death, an autobiographical collage of the 1980's, the reader .
            
gets acquainted with a Kurt Vonnegut non fiction postmodern narration. Vonnegut .
            
normally, like partly in this lecture, combines science fiction, social satire and black .
            
comedy. In this case he clarifies, with a satirical and ironical tone, the inevitable fate of .
            
death which every living organism sooner or later has to face.
            
Vonnegut illustrates a fate which seems to be worse than death like cruzifixion and .
            
others which at  first seem worse than death like the results of our inventiveness or .
            
slavery. Vonnegut demonstrates ironical  how politics and how science could be used to .
            
create effects not always beneficial to humankind. In this paper i will examine the .
            
possible consequences of  our inventiveness that could evolve to particular subjects and .
            
issues in the future which could be regarded in some sense as fates worse than death.
            
Over decades there have been several inventions that have influenced us or have .
            
become part of our lives. The invention of  the cigarette, or tabacco in general,  is .
            
certainly an invention which has had a greater influence on mankind. If we take a good .
            
look around in our everyday living environment we will  recognize that the majority of .
            
our fellow citizens consume nicotin. Although it has been proven that smoking can cause .
            
different kinds of diseases like lung cancer. Furthemore  if you start smoking at an early .
            
age as a teenager you could develop physically underdevelopment at a latter age. My .
            
analysis is restricted to the existance of humankind.upon closer consideration of fates .
            
that are caused by the inventiveness of  humankind.
            
 A few decades ago the family structures were quite different.In earlier times there were .
            
nearly always three generations living under the same roof and it was normal to take .
            
care of the elderly yourself. Nowadays the fates of our older citizens are uncertain and .