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Old people in Japan should commit mass suicide says Yale professor

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        What an incredibly heartless comment to make.

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          Dr Narita has now told The New York Times his comments were “taken out of context”, and the paper reported that he added “they related to demands for older people in leadership positions to make way for the younger generation”.

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            "Since 2008"

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              I do wish there was a way to check out early without endangering your insurance, though.

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                Ubasute (elder senicide): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubasute

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                  Dr Narita has now told The New York Times his comments were “taken out of context”, and the paper reported that he added “they related to demands for older people in leadership positions to make way for the younger generation”.

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                  "I didn't mean 'they should kill themselves', I merely stated that the old fucks should gtfo and cease to exist. By killing themselves. Media takes things so far out of context..."

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                    I do wish there was a way to check out early without endangering your insurance, though.

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                    Simple, don't have insurance

                    taps head 🧠

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                      Ubasute (elder senicide): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubasute

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                      left there to die

                      Couldn't even do them the service of running them through with a katana. Just left them alone to suffer. Lol

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                        "For an extra quarter, would you like to have your eyes scooped out by a melon baller?"

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                          Ubasute (elder senicide): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubasute

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                          Similarly, ättestupa.

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                            If you've ever seen Thank You for Smoking and appreciated the dark political satire, check out Boomsday from Christopher Buckley by the same author, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomsday_(novel)

                            Cassandra Devine, "a morally superior twenty-nine-year-old PR chick" and moonlit angry blogger, incites generational warfare when she proposes that the financially nonviable Baby Boomers be given incentives (free Botox, no estate tax) to kill themselves at 70. The proposal, meant only as a catalyst for debate on the issue, catches the approval of millions of citizens, chief among them an ambitious presidential candidate, Senator Randolph Jepperson.

                            It's been a decade or more since I last read it, but I remember it being pretty funny and insightful.

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                              I do wish there was a way to check out early without endangering your insurance, though.

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                              Whoops my car drove off of a bridge

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                                I was kinda hoping I'd read the article and it would be a modern day "a modest proposal" but it doesn't seem to be and now I'm sad.

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                                  Why the fuck does this publication abbreviate assisted suicide as "ass suicide"

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                                    Aha. Before committing mass suicide, they might want to use the next 75 years to invent robot caregivers. That'd be another option to deal with old people.

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                                      "Since 2008"

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                                      Australian dude used a home-made robot to kill himself in 2008

                                      https://www.wired.com/2008/03/australian-man/

                                      9 years late on a corporate model

                                      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarco_pod

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                                        If you've ever seen Thank You for Smoking and appreciated the dark political satire, check out Boomsday from Christopher Buckley by the same author, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomsday_(novel)

                                        Cassandra Devine, "a morally superior twenty-nine-year-old PR chick" and moonlit angry blogger, incites generational warfare when she proposes that the financially nonviable Baby Boomers be given incentives (free Botox, no estate tax) to kill themselves at 70. The proposal, meant only as a catalyst for debate on the issue, catches the approval of millions of citizens, chief among them an ambitious presidential candidate, Senator Randolph Jepperson.

                                        It's been a decade or more since I last read it, but I remember it being pretty funny and insightful.

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                                        It's a good book. And I remember them to be good to read back to back.

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                                          Why the fuck does this publication abbreviate assisted suicide as "ass suicide"

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                                          And why Apple is using “Liquid Glass” for “Liquid Ass”?

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