Technology in the novel "Fahrenheit 451," prohibits the expansion of happiness for the society, causing depression and suicide. Throughout the novel, many different characters attempt suicide including Montag’s spouse, Mildred, who overdoses on sleeping medication. “Her face was like a snow covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain[] Her eyes glass and breath going in and out, softly, faintly, and her not caring whether it came or went” (13). Mildred tries numerous times to commit suicide, failing in all of her attempts, leaving herself to be found by Montag. Every time someone in the novel attempts to overdose, a routine is taken into effect. Many citizens of this society try to commit suicide, that there are teams of specialists who come to the house, when they are of need. The team consists of two machines and two operators, which were horrendous and vulgar looking, One of them slid into your stomach like a black cobra down an echoing well looking for all the old water and the old time gathered down there. It drank up the green matter that flowed to the top in a slow boil [. . .] The other machine, operated by an equally impersonal fellow in non-sustainable reddish-brown coveralls. This machine pumped all of the blood from the body and replaced it with fresh blood and serum. (14-15) This bleak process cheats death, allowing more and more people to not fear death, making them more susceptible to committing suicide, or committing it in a more brutal way. Technology begins to come to the surface as a main theme for suicide, and the games that promote violence are not helping the hopes for humanity. A very dangerous animal the Firemen use to hunt down criminals, the Mechanical Hound, becomes useful for even the purpose of suicide because of its guarantee of death. Beatty, Montag’s boss and also the Fire chief, tells Montag, “Montag, a funny thing. Heard tell me this morning. Fireman in Seattle purposel