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This would encourage your loved ones to keep you alive until you reach that age. Besides insurance companies for profit motive aside, this might create a lot o
by aynyc 4y ago
This would encourage your loved ones to keep you alive until you reach that age.
Besides insurance companies for profit motive aside, this might create a lot of unnecessary medical procedures to simply prolong someone's life, even if the quality is total shit.
- rhn_mk1 4y agoThere's a dual to that in life insurance, where it incentivizes procedures (or inaction) to shorten life.
- nebula8804 4y agoThe Social Security scam in the US. Encourage people to eat poorly by making healthy food less subsidized compared corn filled garbage and watch as your workers spend a whole careers working while eating poorly to generate value only to die off at retirement as they start to collect on their hard earned effort.
- DennisP 4y agoCould fix that by making assisted suicide an option for the patient. Patient has to live, and want to live.
- aynyc 4y agoYou have to assume the patient has mental capacity to make that decision. I saw first hand family member without DNR went through. I don't want that for anyone.
- DennisP 4y agoGood point.
- MrTortoise 4y agosurley brain in a jar is the more logical outcome?
- 988747 4y agoNo need for medical procedures. There was this scheme in Greece, where people would simply not report deaths of their parents, bury them secretly in the backyard, and continued to receive their pension payments.