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Old people in Japan should commit mass suicide says Yale professor

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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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                      I would very much love to have the choice.

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                        Why is the picture ai?

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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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                          Interesting. Thanks!

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                            Oh hey, I've read that Vonnegut story.

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

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                              Any means you choose. Ass suicide is just a recomendation.

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

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                                It should obviously be ass suc

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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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                                  but we could isolate and study those old people to determine what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use!

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                                    I'm not confident that courting the suggestion of suicide by bringing public attention to it is the ethical move for a journalist.

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                                      Old people in Japan should commit mass suicide says random asshole idiot

                                      Just because he's something something from Yale doesn't mean he's right or even an authority on the subject. With the statement he made it's fairly obvious that he's an idiot and likely a psychopath soooooo why is the press giving this any attention?

                                      Heck, I could argue that by giving this attention, some people might be tempted to implement this idea, this article it just plain stupid.

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                                        Oh hey, I've read that Vonnegut story.

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                                        We are what we pretend to be?

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                                          Actual Japanese here, even within the dark humor context, I wholeheartedly agree with Yusuke Narita.

                                          It's precisely the gerontocracy in Japan why the nation is heading extremely far right. The aging oppressive population needs to retire, vacate, and leave the younger generation capable of making their choices. We are the lowest GDP first nation because of elders oppressing.

                                          I'm glad Yusukeさん is in the 🇺🇲, but I’m afraid he’ll be deathcamped soon.

                                          I'm thankful 28 folks read the article correctly. Fuck oppression.

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