There's a concept used to compare alternatives called a "quality-adjusted life year": basically people like living in ways that make them happy, dislike hard ye

There's a concept used to compare alternatives called a "quality-adjusted life year": basically people like living in ways that make them happy, dislike hard years. There are many places where you'll get very solid treatment as part of social insurance, but even in places where you would not I think your premise is flawed. If you halve your quality of life in order to extend a...60 year lifetime to 70 years it would not be a good exchange.