Introduction of Age Limit for Humans

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I'm a proponent of instituting an age limit for human life, set at age 80.

79-year-olds would qualify for a government grant to spend in their last year, and on their 80th birthday they say goodbye to anyone who still cares, then get turned into plant food.

Discuss!
 
The Atheist said:
I'm a proponent of instituting an age limit for human life, set at age 80.

79-year-olds would qualify for a government grant to spend in their last year, and on their 80th birthday they say goodbye to anyone who still cares, then get turned into plant food.

Discuss!
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Um, no.

My mother just died, aged 88. She was active and sharp until the rather sudden end; she was up a ladder pruning her fig tree only a couple of days before she died. You would have denied her spending time with her first four great-grandchildren; to what end?

I'm prepared to listen to a case based on quality of life, but not simply age.
 
The Atheist said:
I'm a proponent of instituting an age limit for human life, set at age 80.

79-year-olds would qualify for a government grant to spend in their last year, and on their 80th birthday they say goodbye to anyone who still cares, then get turned into plant food.

Discuss!
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I'm all for this, provided it were optional. And properly vetted by medical professionals, so that one is sure that's what's really opted for, a fully informed and considered choice, and not merely impulse or depression speaking.

With those precautions in place, I'd support such a move, such an option made available, at *any* age.
 
Even better: a two child policy for every country

That's the most you can have. If we're going full authoritarian let's make it worthwhile.

Also a weight-height ratio limit.
 
The Atheist said:
I'm a proponent of instituting an age limit for human life, set at age 80.

79-year-olds would qualify for a government grant to spend in their last year, and on their 80th birthday they say goodbye to anyone who still cares, then get turned into plant food.

Discuss!
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We already read Logan's Run.
 
I'd set a lower limit too. Humans shouldn't be allowed to exist until they're actual useful and have basic social skills, somewhere round 22.
 
I was thinking about the issue of assisted suicide recently.

I think it's pretty obvious that it's a bad idea to arbitrarily set a mandatory one-size-fits-all age limit for life, but I am very much in favor of allowing those who want to end their own lives at a time of their own choosing in a dignified manner to do so. I would like to have this option for myself when the time comes that whatever remains of my life is not worth living to the bitter end anymore.

Health is something people don't fully appreciate until they lose it. You tend to take it for granted, unless reminded, until suddenly it is taken away.
 
I'd want the grant way before 79, but I say we go by intelligence rather than age. Would be a lot more beneficial to the planet.
 
Matthew Best said:
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Mostly, the economic cost of keeping them alive.

Old people take up vast amounts of health budgets
The increase in longevity is going to run pension payments dry
The quality of life for a majority of them isn't worth preserving
80 years is enough

We're already in crisis mode for staffing age care homes, and that will only worsen. We're also desperately short of doctors worldwide, and chopping the dead wood would create a vast saving, allowing doctors to concentrate on younger people.

Chanakya said:
I'm all for this, provided it were optional.
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That's not what I'm looking at.

Rolfe said:
We already read Logan's Run.
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Logan's Run was 30. This is not comparable in any way.
 
I’m 60. Judging by my current health and fitness, I will be more mobile and active at 80 than many people will be at 60. I’m afraid I have to cast my veto.
 
I'll be 80 next June. Believe I'll opt out of the program. Me and my well-tested .30-06.

Damn, what a fun sci fi thriller movie setting! Titles:

Ye Olde Hunter

Hunting Old Game

The Old Target

Old Punks: The Sequel

Last Year in Dystopia

Bifocal Sniper

U.s.w. But I get to play the lead or the deal's off. And I insist that we work in a variation on the genre: seven to ten sweaty singlet girls. Casting by yerz trooly. No, they won't all be my nieces! Goddammit, I'm talking about ART!
 
The Atheist said:
I'm a proponent of instituting an age limit for human life, set at age 80.

79-year-olds would qualify for a government grant to spend in their last year, and on their 80th birthday they say goodbye to anyone who still cares, then get turned into plant food.

Discuss!
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Firstly, thank you for spending all of your time contributing to the common good. Obviously, if you were spending any of your time not doing so- you would just off yourself for the "dead wood" that you would be.

Second. Hang in there! I know its' tough, but if you try really hard you can probably make enough of a living that you won't need your folks' inheritance to help you do more of your contributing to the common good.
 
Old people have experience and memory. We should preserve them. First against the wall should be anyone in prison, twenty somethings who can't justify their existence to a jury of their betters, and self-evident misanthropes (obviously).
 
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I side with Rumpole: it's about the quality of life, not the quantity. If I'm having an enjoyable old age then I see no reason to stop. However if I'm miserable then I see no need to drag it out.
 
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