Working in dementia wards and retirement homes, I've come to wonder if an increased life expectancy is not necessarily a good thing and we're just prolonging human suffering.It seems like for most of history, if you had something wrong with you, you we

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Anonymage 09/05/24 (Thu) 04:16:58 No.294757

Working in dementia wards and retirement homes, I've come to wonder if an increased life expectancy is not necessarily a good thing and we're just prolonging human suffering.

It seems like for most of history, if you had something wrong with you, you were quickly filtered off and didn't suffer too long. The congenitally sickly and disabled typically died early on as children, and if you got unwell in your 40s, 50s or 60s you typically died. Even things like Schizophrenia had a much shorter suffering period as you inevitably hurt yourself and got an infection, now schizos are kept alive until they die in their 50s or 60s.

Could it be that modern society has it wrong and having a leaner, meaner filter keeps the population fit and healthy? It seems like the burden of wah wah existentialism comes from living too long as well, as the whole literary movement is correlated with life expectancy starting to rise in Europe.

Anonymage 09/05/24 (Thu) 05:09:14 No.294758

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I have thought about that before. I'd say you're right.

Anonymage 09/05/24 (Thu) 19:06:34 No.294773

Solution: Give every citizen at the age of XX (2X) a free pill in a neutral envelope. Don't wait for a proposal, just send it to everyone generally. It's up to them whether to take it or not. This would solve all our problems.

Anonymage 09/06/24 (Fri) 04:57:21 No.294776

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I also work in a similar environment. It makes me depressed to see all these old people who never get visitors and spend their days in chronic pain and misery, occasionally sitting in their own shit and kept alive because they have an advance directive that says to keep them alive written by their kids who have power of attorney and made it happen but also never visit or give a shit about them.
Kinda makes me wish we had pic related or something.

Anonymage 11/13/24 (Wed) 14:18:50 No.296094

Read Brave New World, i think they had pills there that made you perfectly healthy until you're 60 and then you died immediately
Is this what you want? I think withering away is natural, nothing wrong with that, because you're supposed to trade your youth, health, potential for experience and wisdom and wealth and connections and descendants. If you do that, then as you become old and senile and useless, you've got all that stuff you've accumulated, and people who love you and will never abandon you

Now, lots of boomers traded their life's potential for hedonisic spending and pure monetary gain, and now they eat dirt. Good riddance.