We’re hearing a lot about how the care of the elderly will bankrupt the nation. But no one seems to be paying any attention to an obvious partial solution: Voluntary Termination of Life for those who find their basic standards for it are no longer available.
Examples would be people who know their brain is about to go wonky, leaving them as just a working body from which the personality has been stripped, and people with an active brain who see their body getting too frail for them to be able to look after themselves, and who would rather not be parked in a care home at the whim of strangers when they are no longer able to lead the life they want.
“It will be abused!” wail the ‘I’m Against Everything’ bunch.
“What the hell isn’t?” the rest of us yell back at them.
Yes, there will be people eager to bump off inconvenient relatives, but that’s no reason why those who don’t want to stick around should not have a legal exit option.
VToL for the some. It does make sense.
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