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Old 06-08-2015, 01:23 PM #1
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I don't agree with anything she's suggesting, because it sounds like her idea is a culling of eldery people rather than actual euthanasia (in which the person in question is usually choosing to end their life, not being put down because they're "old"). Killing off people once they reach a certain age is like an idea from a story set in a sinister dystopian dictatorship.

We don't have too many old people, we have too many cruel, spiteful pieces of trash like her.
i think you'd be surprised how many elderly folk are hopeless and ready to go. i think it's very exhausting for them to put up with tons of young people patronizing them. and they do feel like a burden, especially if they have lost mobility.

i do hope medical science invents immortality before i'm that age. i don't want to be in a care home. although even if they do invent immortality, probably only the rich will be able to afford it.
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i think you'd be surprised how many elderly folk are hopeless and ready to go. i think it's very exhausting for them to put up with tons of young people patronizing them. and they do feel like a burden, especially if they have lost mobility.

i do hope medical science invents immortality before i'm that age. i don't want to be in a care home. although even if they do invent immortality, probably only the rich will be able to afford it.
My point is that she's seemingly not merely refering to those "ready to go". Specifically, the part where she says something along the lines of "just because medical advances allow us to live longer doesn't mean it's the right thing to do" sounds like she expects old people to essentially end their lives at a certain age as a requirement for population control, not a choice.
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