I don't really care for the parent-child slaughter thing. Even if the kids are very enthusiastic about dying with their parent it seems to me that they would almost certainly have been persuaded by the parent into it somehow. Rather like people being religious because that was how they were brought up, not because they themselves decided to be (in most cases, anyway). It just seems like a sort of moral grey area to me, can't be sure if it really is the kids' decision to die, or if the parent planted the idea in them.

Now, if it were the kids who dragged the parent into it, it'd be different I think, so that would be a far more likely scenario.

I have similar feelings about the sales pitch thing. I want whoever comes into the shop to get killed to do so entirely because they themselves decided to do it, whereas a sales pitch is designed to sort of create an artificial need into someone. Nobody NEEDS a really fancy watch if their cheap little Casio watch still works, but they could still be sold one if the salesperson manipulates them into thinking a ridiculously expensive Rolex watch would be better, even if it happens to be functionally identical to the cheap one. I find that pretty shady, so I think the only persuasion that should occur in the shop is the kind that Evelina did with the depressed boy. That way only people who really want to die get killed, and anyone who is not absolutely certain or wants it for the wrong reasons will be talked out of it, rather than the other way around. Think of it as some sort of anti-consumerism cannibalism, or something. (I'm really subtle about my political views, right? 8) )

Thanks for the suggestions though, they're always appreciated!