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you can't really value a human life on whether it's a resource drain or not. If that held true, no children would ever reach maturity either, since they're not economically viable...
Someone on this board has a signature: despite the high cost, living remains highly popular - or something along those lines.
But I agree that something has to be done. The elderly are fast becoming the majority in most industrialised countries, and most economical and financial plans were set up to deal with a very different demographic... Changes will have to occur and in a fair amount of time too. Whether making people work longer before they can retire or whatnot, but otherwise, a young working generation is going to have to pay an unreasonably high part of their pay to support the elderly, only to get peanuts when they themselves retire...
Even so, I think the idea of "duty to die" is ridiculously oversimplified and even childish.
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