Old people in Japan should commit mass suicide says Yale professor
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Does he see the same solution for old people everywhere, or just Japan? Seems like anyone can become a professor nowadays. There used to be standards, dammit!
wrote last edited by [email protected]it's a lot less controversial when phrased as euthanasia should be an option as a part of palliative care ...
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no
proof provided in your continued posting on lemmy
Oh that's just to ameliorate the insanity; I'm fully resigned to the inevitability of my death and factual nature of my contribution, however minor it may be, to our collective demise
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Pro-life website. The article is probably not worth reading lmao.
Doesn't sound very "pro-life" to me. But then their self-identification was always a severe misnomer.
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I don't speak Japanese, but if you follow the link to the video it starts about 18 minutes into the 20 minutes video. The professor says something and then everyone laughs.
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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.
What on Earth is with the links.
A link to a Lemmy micro-opinion, a link to a Sega video, and a link to some random article.
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Aren't we all committing mass suicide already tho? I mean, have you looked at earth lately? I mean I want to kill myself as much as the next person, maybe more, but if we are ranking demographics that should go first, my vote is for the rich not just the elderly
That's one of the funniest lines I've heard today ty
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What on Earth is with the links.
A link to a Lemmy micro-opinion, a link to a Sega video, and a link to some random article.
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The links have other links to sources, so nested sources.
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The Sega video has citations on how our economy got dwindled by greedy kusojijii forcing us to work for longer hours and years than they ever did.
I'm too overworked to find you an encapsulating video essay on how spiralled to death our economy got fucked over by our boomers.
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Yusuke Narita lives in 🇺🇲. The article references folks ICE has abducted that maybe legal Japanese-US citizens, on their way to whichever deathcamp Trump sent these workers to.
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That's one of the funniest lines I've heard today ty
You're welcome, I was surprised to see I'd written it. Could use polish, but you can never go home again I suppose
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I think we should all have dots in our hands and when it glows at the age of 30 we enter the Carousel to be renewed.
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I think we should all have dots in our hands and when it glows at the age of 30 we enter the Carousel to be renewed.
Renew! Renew!
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Aren't we all committing mass suicide already tho? I mean, have you looked at earth lately? I mean I want to kill myself as much as the next person, maybe more, but if we are ranking demographics that should go first, my vote is for the rich not just the elderly
Aren't we all committing mass suicide already tho?
Your comment made me so sad that we kinda are in a more capitalist way.
We're withholding meds from old people by taking away their health insurance, not giving them any income, and pushing them into the street.
In the US, Social Security benefits is from $553-$943.
Boy we are so fucked.
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Aren't we all committing mass suicide already tho?
Your comment made me so sad that we kinda are in a more capitalist way.
We're withholding meds from old people by taking away their health insurance, not giving them any income, and pushing them into the street.
In the US, Social Security benefits is from $553-$943.
Boy we are so fucked.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I'm people, I'm social security, I'll lose medicaid, I'll lose snap, I'll lose Medicare with the ai auto denials, maybe I'll street, not for long though.
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EUTHANASIA / ASS SUICIDE
Their proofreading skills check out.
Should be EUTHANASSIA in that case, right?
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Aren't we all committing mass suicide already tho?
Your comment made me so sad that we kinda are in a more capitalist way.
We're withholding meds from old people by taking away their health insurance, not giving them any income, and pushing them into the street.
In the US, Social Security benefits is from $553-$943.
Boy we are so fucked.
In the US, Social Security benefits is from $553-$943.
Nope. The max is more like $3600 a month.
Source: I get Social Security and I'm paid about that amount. I was over max Social Security income for all the years I needed to quality.
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As someone in a western country now inconceivable! Heck we still have a good portion of Americans who complain about the living standards but will stay home in November or actively vote for things like deporting immigrants like that magically fixes the over arching problem
56 is the median age for home buyers in 2025 and it’s been this way for a very long time.
We’re as doomed as Japan honestly we just happen to encourage immigration lol. So I agree with you.
Look at the median age of first-time homebuyers, it's less skewed. Many people make more than one home purchase in a lifetime, including whan they buy smaller places when they're old in order to downsize, or when they buy into a retirement community.
The median age of first-time home buyers is 35, according to this: https://www.financialsamurai.com/the-median-homebuyer-age-is-now-so-old/
National Association of Realtors gives a slightly higher number.
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The problem is already well underway in the west. Some potential growth has already been squandered, acting now is an emergency.
"Squandered" is carrying lots of baggage there, in particular the assumptions that population growth is a good thing, that it's sustainable, and that the average person will be better off in a positive-growth scenario. None of those are proven. And the assumption that population reduction is bad is often because measures such as GDP (which is approximately proportional to population) drops if population does. But aggregate GDP is not the appropriate measure in such a case.
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I completely sympathize with the Japanese view about immigration. Their society has a lot going for it which is held up by the culture. And diversity would lead to a tragedy of the commons in many cases, like keeping public spaces clean.
However, sacrificing your elders is not exactly Japan’s culture either.
The "tragedy of the commons" was an economic thought experiment involving unmanged commons. Learn the history of how commons were actually managed through history and you'll draw a different conclusion.
Also, don't let the rich expropriate the commons like they did in the UK in the late 17th and all the 18th centuries. That causes all kinds of social problems, including mass (sometimes coerced) emigration.
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I would very much love to have the choice.
You already do.
But if you think suicide is a desirable choice, call a helpline. In all but some rare cases, your problem is disordered thinking.
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Why the fuck does this publication abbreviate assisted suicide as "ass suicide"
That could lead to pressuring people into euthananal.
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Similarly, ättestupa.
My instructions to family members in case I get brain rot are essentially ättestupa.
