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You have to die of something eventually. We are not immortal.
by ReptileMan 5y ago
You have to die of something eventually. We are not immortal.
- woodruffw 5y agoI think many people would like to see their loved ones live longer, healthier lives and die with relative comfort. That doesn't require being denial about their mortality.
- twofornone 5y agoMost people do not get the fortune of dying peacefully in their sleep, regardless of their health habits.
- woodruffw 5y agoWhich doesn't, in itself, justify a particularly nasty form of death for hundreds of thousands of people. Why let the perfect be the enemy of the good?
- febeling 5y agoMany people would like to see their loved ones live in freedom, too. That means in probably almost 100% of the cases making sub-optimal decisions.
- ReptileMan 5y agoAnd yet the loved ones decision how to live their lives greatly outweigh what many people would like to see. Having more pleasurable life when young while trading for a more gruesome death after 80 is not that bad of trade off. There was a joke: - Drinking, smoking and whoring shorten your life with 6 years. - Which six? Between 92 and 98 - take it.
- woodruffw 5y agoI don't disagree. But it's also not clear why the government should incentivize individually cheap, collectively expensive personal decisions like current smoking patterns.
- _-david-_ 5y agoLet's ban allowing people to be fat. Obesity is quite deadly and is a drain on the healthcare system.