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The key word here is "good health". If you start shifting from "living as long as possible" to "living with the most dignity up until the end", you end up quest
by ux 6y ago
The key word here is "good health". If you start shifting from "living as long as possible" to "living with the most dignity up until the end", you end up questioning euthanasia, but also how people live post work-life: typically, how people are going to live decently through their last stage post 60s, can they enter a stage where they are relieved from the stress, pain, etc. You can't just say "well let them die earlier" if you don't provide some form of hope of relief for their last years.
Today I'd argue that the growing lifespan is used as an argument to make people work longer, which means in worse physical conditions. The "Work until your death" motto (the curse of people living in poverty) is not great for a healthy and attractive society. Questioning it ends up in a heated political/societal/philosophical discussion pretty quickly. And we're definitely not heading in the healthy direction: not because we don't want to shift the medical institution, but because we need a more profound society change. From a purely economical PoV, it's great that people die before around the beginning retirement, from a societal PoV it's a disaster.
- adrianN 6y agoPeople are asked to work longer because pension systems were set up when people used to die less than ten years after retirement and now a lot fewer young people have to pay for retirees living 15+ years. The only way to avoid this is to drastically reform pension systems.