Oh hey, I’ve read that Vonnegut story.
If you’ve ever seen Thank You for Smoking and appreciated the dark political satire, check out Boomsday from Christopher Buckley by the same author, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomsday_(novel)
Cassandra Devine, “a morally superior twenty-nine-year-old PR chick” and moonlit angry blogger, incites generational warfare when she proposes that the financially nonviable Baby Boomers be given incentives (free Botox, no estate tax) to kill themselves at 70. The proposal, meant only as a catalyst for debate on the issue, catches the approval of millions of citizens, chief among them an ambitious presidential candidate, Senator Randolph Jepperson.
It’s been a decade or more since I last read it, but I remember it being pretty funny and insightful.
It’s a good book. And I remember them to be good to read back to back.
Why the fuck does this publication abbreviate assisted suicide as “ass suicide”
And why Apple is using “Liquid Glass” for “Liquid Ass”?
Any means you choose. Ass suicide is just a recomendation.
Pro-life website. The article is probably not worth reading lmao.
EUTHANASIA / ASS SUICIDE
Their proofreading skills check out.
You first, buddy
Dr Narita has now told The New York Times his comments were “taken out of context”, and the paper reported that he added “they related to demands for older people in leadership positions to make way for the younger generation”.
“I didn’t mean ‘they should kill themselves’, I merely stated that the old fucks should gtfo and cease to exist. By killing themselves. Media takes things so far out of context…”
I was kinda hoping I’d read the article and it would be a modern day “a modest proposal” but it doesn’t seem to be and now I’m sad.
What an incredibly heartless comment to make.
“Since 2008”
Aha. Before committing mass suicide, they might want to use the next 75 years to invent robot caregivers. That’d be another option to deal with old people.
Aren’t we all committing mass suicide already tho? I mean, have you looked at earth lately? I mean I want to kill myself as much as the next person, maybe more, but if we are ranking demographics that should go first, my vote is for the rich not just the elderly
