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Way too optimistic. Here, all rectangles look similar, but actually, quality of life in bottom rectangles deteriorates rapidly, medical expenses are skyrocketin
by atemerev 11y ago
Way too optimistic. Here, all rectangles look similar, but actually, quality of life in bottom rectangles deteriorates rapidly, medical expenses are skyrocketing, and basically everything sucks.
- pcurve 11y agoI get the feeling the creator wasn't trying to plot quality of life as data point here...
- a3n 11y agoMaybe. Or quality of life might mean something different to people as they age.
- duaneb 11y agoMedical expenses only accelerate if you attempt to fend off death. There is no need for this with assisted suicide laws.
- atemerev 11y agoI am living in the country with such laws in place (Switzerland); but most old people I talked to really want to live. Nobody wants to die, unless they are in great pain.
- duaneb 11y ago> quality of life in bottom rectangles deteriorates rapidly, medical expenses are skyrocketing, and basically everything sucks. That sounds pretty painful.
- ams6110 11y agoThere is no need for this even without assisted suicide laws.
- duaneb 11y agoChoosing between months of dying painfully and years of dying perhaps marginally less painfully is not a choice anyone should have to make.
- sndean 11y agoYou could possibly say the same thing about quality of life in the beginning. Lots of necessary medical care, making your parent's lives miserable, can't get up and make a sandwich, higher likelihood of death [1], etc. [1] http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/Risk/dyingage1.jpg http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/Risk/dyingage1....