@SergeantLynch
Our retired homes treat seniors with respect. Canadians life expectancy is higher that US.
Our retired homes treat seniors with respect. Canadians life expectancy is higher that US.
Yes nursing homes here too.
Just overdose me on anaesthetics...Works for dogs...And the cost savings are huge.
Hmmm...There is retirement homes and then there is nursing homes...Just as there is being aged and there is being decrepit.
The value of longevity varies considerably.
Canada respects its seniors through a mix of financial safety nets, community programs and healthcare aimed at helping people age with dignity.
Sadly though healthcare quite often leads to a less dignified demise.
Prolonging life would be far more beneficial to the individual and society if the middle bit could be prolonged.
Healthcare is there to provide a healthy functional life regardless of age.
Some might suggest that decrepitude is never healthy and functional.
That can be avoided with proper healthcare dealing with physical and mental wellbeing.
Hmmmm, sadly or not decrepitude cannot be avoided...Very few people remain robustly sound of mind and body beyond let's say 85...Though for sure, a few lucky ones are an exception to the rule...Nonetheless most still rely upon medical intervention in some form.
I would suggest that "healthcare" is there to keep people alive for as long as possible, irrespective of how healthy or functional life is.
I 'am curious how long machines, wires, tubes 'could keep a person alive and brain functioning.
Bit unrelated,
To be euthanized, 'feels a waste, not the way I'd expect people to 'want to go.
But what is the other options,
Hold on to the end I suppose, painful, and with severe mental failings, I wonder if many people do not die 'far before their bodies.
Some myths claim that Vikings believed one must die in battle to get to Valhalla.
I find it odd that one does not hear of more old soldiers or criminals.
But perhaps one is too weary, disabled, or has the perspective that such would be wrong, at that age.
. . Or still wanting life perhaps.
Many people die before they are physically disabled,
Many people even disabled, still have meaningful lives, pursuits, thoughts, family.
The afterlife makes your question incomplete.
After life...Yes, such is an opportunity for wishful thinking...Which for sure, is a coping strategy.
And I'm guessing Leaning Global Moderator, that micro-organisms will have the final say...After life indeed.
It’s humans who have reported after life experiences.
And yet the idea interests me,
Especially when I think about Fiction.
Fantasy and such, with souls and what.
But I've yet to think up a system yet that satisfies me.
Or yet to read of an afterlife I find satisfying.
Nope Debs...It's impossible to report afterlife experiences...We can only report Close to Death but Recovered experiences, wherein an internal organic data processing system under stress created dream like internal illusions/simulations...The recollections of which can only ever be personal and unverifiable and are likely to be subject to exaggeration, especially if coerced by interested third parties.
I would suggest that downloading consciousness to another system is the best bet...Though we are yet to develop such a system.
Hmmm...Maybe such a system has been developed elsewhere and collects all universal consciousness...But if there is, it is an undetectable phenomena.
Though the thought of existing as an individual consciousness on a database of billions of other consciousnesses, isn't a particularly appealing thought.
And I doubt that such a system would have been developed purely for altruistic reasons.
There are a lot of legal issues reporting an afterlife. That is why people stay quiet.