A Yale economics professor has some ideas for how to deal with the burdens of Japan’s rapidly aging society. The “only solution,” he said, is mass suicide of the elderly, including ritual disembowelment.
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lol I think that's a little different
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But THEY ARE. It's literally the only option they are leaving me & millions others with.
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I was told to go ahead and use the euthanasia option by some awesome liberals.
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This paper needs to die. All the wrong outlets are closing down
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What I find strange is that he likened it to 'Sepukku', honour-linked ritual disembowelment, rather than Ubasute, the legendary practice of carrying infirm/elderly ppl to a mountain, and leaving them there to die (eg, the Ballad of Narayama).
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