AGATHON: (From Greek, agathos , good, and thanatos , death.) Employed briefly during the pre-Toring era. When the death of a citizen of interest to the Lodges was predicted by his biostat (q.v.), the Council arranged secretly for the demise to occur under the circumstances considered most beneficial to the world. After the personality factors of all principals concerned had been integrated and the death plan (or agathon) determined, it was carried out by the local preceptor. Immediately after th