Thaluikhain said:
Is there a gritty reboot of Logan's Run coming out or something?
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Would this apply to the Queen of Australia? Could cause a bit of a kerfuffle.
It
especially applies to the monarch.
Logan's Run is kind of dumb, however. I mean people are in their peak in their thirties. Often well educated, or experienced (or both), often maried, with kids. Your 80s and 90s are kind of pointless, really. And pointless due to the real tragedy of age related disease.
Instead of funding log-term palliative care, why not mandatory death after 85, but you can spend up to of $200,000 on the year of your 84th-85th birthdays tax-free? So you can spend a year/year and a bit guaranteed kicking back, relaxing, staying in nice hotels with an assistant, treating your spouse and family out, whatever you want with that money.
What would you say then? That is like infinitely better than most oldies get now.
Have you seen nursing homes? No one, ever, should have to spend time in one. At all, if it can be afforded. Rather than societies angling for their populations to live merely as long as possible, we should aim at creating a society where everyone can die happy. And people should have that goddamn option. There is no excuse why people can't just elect to die, and that a society should provide options to make it as easy, painless, and immediate as possible.
It is the ultimate expression of spineless selfishness that a society gets so fucking squemish and 'precious' if an old person says; "Know what? Had a good run. Some fun adventures, some miserable ones. Put a bullet in me as I reminisce, would you?"
If I manage to make it to my 70s, much less 80s, I would
like that bullet option. Looking at my lineage, one side of my family are ucky to make it into the 60s due to historical political violence and warfare, and on the otherside of my family a strong streak of various shades of lunacy. People should have the option to just elect to die. Suicide is a remarkably difficult thing to do, and there might be physiological or psychological reasons why it can't be achieved, so there should be an alternative that involves less direct input altogether to maximize individual happiness.