Should the elderly in Texas and Japan be willing to die for the sake of the economy

Дата публикации: 24-02-2023 11:00:08

The background story for what was a strange news report will likely be more interesting and there are the usual bits of outrage by those who forgot what Dan Patrick said during COVID.
(2020) Dan Patrick, Texas’ Republican lieutenant governor... suggested that he and other grandparents would be willing to risk their health and even lives in order for the United States to “get back to work” amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“Those of us who are 70 plus, we’ll take care of ourselves. But don’t sacrifice the country,” Patrick said on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
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Japan.*
*Large elderly population, late to begin vaccination, obsessive mask wearers. The entire country of Japan has had less Covid deaths than the state of NY (or Florida or Texas or California).
Yusuke Narita is surfing the Zeitgeist of an ageing, sclerotic society which is fraying at the edges.
In interviews and public appearances, Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale, has taken on the question of how to deal with the burdens of Japan’s rapidly aging society.
“I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” he said during one online news program in late 2021. “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of the elderly?” Seppuku is an act of ritual disembowelment that was a code among dishonored samurai in the 19th century.
Last year, when asked by a school-age boy to elaborate on his mass seppuku theories, Dr. Narita graphically described to a group of assembled students a scene from “Midsommar,” a 2019 horror film in which a Swedish cult sends one of its oldest members to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff.
“Whether that’s a good thing or not, that’s a more difficult question to answer,” Dr. Narita told the questioner as he assiduously scribbled notes. “So if you think that’s good, then maybe you can work hard toward creating a society like that.”
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With a fertility rate of about 1.3 children per woman and a third of the population over 65, it seems inevitable that some Japanese should begin thinking about institutionalized euthanasia. One out of five people live alone and Japan has the highest proportion of people suffering from dementia.
A film on the topic, Plan 75, was Japan’s entry for the best foreign feature film. The director, Chie Hayakawa, imagines a not-too-distant future in which senior citizens are coaxed into euthanasia plans by cheery young salespeople as if they were considering an overseas cruise,
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xThere was a politician in Texas that suggested we elders die of Covid to ensure the economy held fast for the grandchildren. My thoughts, you first buddy. The second was Hell, no, I won’t be a republican statistic under tfg.  Ritual suicide is a bad idea in Japan too.— Betsy_Flickers (@Betsy_Flickers) February 14, 2023
A professor at Yale University has sparked outrage for suggesting that elderly Japanese residents should take part in a “mass suicide” by disembowelment to help the country deal with its rapidly aging population.
Yusuke Narita, 37, an assistant professor of economics at the Ivy League school, has gained hundreds of thousands of followers on social media as he touted the controversial solution in multiple interviews and publications — but he’s also drawn ire, the New York Times reported.
“I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” Narita said during a news program in late 2021.
“In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of the elderly?” he added, referring to the practice of disembowelment utilized by dishonored Samurai in the late 19th century.
Last year, Narita answered a boy’s question about seppuku by telling a group of students about a scene from “Midsommar,” a 2019 flick in which a Swedish cult sends one of its oldest members to jump off a cliff.
“Whether that’s a good thing or not, that’s a more difficult question to answer,” he said. “So if you think that’s good, then maybe you can work hard toward creating a society like that.”
He also has discussed euthanasia, predicting that the “possibility of making it mandatory in the future” will become part of the public discourse.
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