I'm morbid (obviously) so I loved the descriptions of the suicide machines in the first one.
The dissociation described in the second story are certainly intensifications of things I've felt in public. Though I feel isolated frequently, this story made me glad I'm the only one of me. (And I really hope I don't realize the truth, if it is so!)
"To understand a cat you must realize that he has his own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality."
--LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN