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What is your country?

• Tsubasachan 8y ago
  Netherlands. People actually feel safe when they have a contract that allows them to be terminated when they get Alzheimer's for example. People want to live but on their own terms. Not spending 20 years in diapers tied to a bed or all alone wasting away with only a robot to talk to.
  • rfreytag 8y ago
    Logans Run: how does the Netherlands avoid subtle or overt pressure on the elderly that 'it is their time to go?' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan's_Run https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan's_Run I have seen doctors in the US all too often blame 'old age' for conditions that are preventable or can be significantly improved to forestall aging.
    • downrightmike 8y ago
      There is a limit to what people can endure. When you're standing on the 10 story of a building with the floors above and below burning and the fires are starting to overcome the 10th, jumping looks like a better option than slowly burning alive. Crippling disease or mental health are as real a threat as being stuck in a burning building. It is bleak, and may be hard to understand if you haven't been there.
    • Tsubasachan 8y ago
      There is always social pressure, it comes with living in a society. And ofcourse old people don't want to be dicks and be a drain on society or make their children's lives miserable. In Logan's run those seniors went willingly after all. When we were still ruled by nature there were never too many mouths to feed. For the first time in human history half of our citizens are going to be over 65 and there will be consequences.