Just Wondering On This

[lady-janine]

I'm sat here with a lovely cuppa and started wondering : Do any of you think it is the duty of us old-'us to die? If we did we would :
1. free up accommodation and that would ease the housing shortage;
2. release our hard saved money into the economy so that children/grandchildren could waste it;
3. free up hospital beds as we would not need them (after all we would be dead) and they could be used for whatever the younger generation want/need.

That's a start. What do the rest of you think?

[emmie]

danny, exactly my point earlier, how old is old??

[gness]

1. No housing shortage where we live and I haven't finished decorating yet. Would hate someone else to move in and not do the new bathroom black.

2. I worked hard and invested well so I can spend my last years wasting it on things that make me happy. If I left what I have now to my two children they would spend/use it wisely. It would sadden me to think my fun fund was used sensibly.

3. Have no experience of Irish hospitals yet but my if my experience of UK hospitals is anything to go by I really don't want a bed in one.

:-)...x

[Canary42]

Why not, we already murder at the other end of the spectrum.

[pixie374]

We don't allow murder at any point, canary.
I have to apologise for my post.... even if somebody has "nothing" obvious to offer, their life is worth the same. I didn't mean that how it looks.

[bookbinder]

I am an old'un. I do not regard it as being my duty to die, just for someone else's benefit.

[maggiebee]

I think you're a real barrel of laughs LJ - not

[gness]

And there I was...thinking this was for a bit of fun..... :-(

[lady-janine]

Yes Gness 17.08.

[rowanwitch]

I think it is wrong sometimes to keep people alive, and I don't think a treatment should be offered just because it exists and nothing else can be done.
However we are living longer, not always in a state that enables us to live without burdening society and that will become a more serious problem as time goes on.
Most people seem to value their own lives to the point at which they will cling to every last chance no matter how small. There was a time death was seen as part of life, now as a whole we fear it.

[Peter Pedant]

long memory?
there was a black and white telly program about this c 1965
drama with Brian Blessed
two hander - the leddy had declined the deal which was to be kept forever young until your day arrived

clutch of series - wed play - play on 4 and armchair theatre - nick named arm pit theatre

Origen missed out on a sainthood as doctor of the church on this ( cast yourselves over the nearest cliff and get to heaven soonest ) or the fact that he castrated himself to control his lust

[Peter Pedant]

here
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0214305/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_171

[Vagus]

Nope.
It’s our duty to stay alive as the younger generation wouldn’t know how to decorate, do DIY, cook, look after their offspring, or generally enjoy themselves.
Where we go, they shall follow.
Oh yes, and there’s a lot of gin still to be drunk.