I’ve begun to plan on not living so very long after all. It seems to be the best response to the whole world-going-to-shit phenomenon we’re actively promoting here in America. As a plan, it is remarkably adaptable to a multitude of scenarios. Dementia threatens? Cut to the end credits. Conservatives finally gut the social safety nets for senior citizens? Take the express lane out of here! Catastrophic climate change destabilizes the world? One less consumer of precious resources – you can give my allotment to some poor child who will inherit this wasteland, with my sincere apologies.
What is the death of one old woman in a world that did not mourn the passing of the Arctic bears? How can her life’s curtailment compare to the mass extinction and bleached, dead tombs of the Great Barrier Reef?
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Oh jeez. Like real scary things over on this page. I think I need to read about more bats in houses…
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Beautifully stated. And I have to say, I have more and more conversations with people in my generation who do NOT want to live long enough to die like their parents (or go on in this crazy world).
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I’m not ready to go now, but I completely agree with you. Today I was spitting angry after the Pittsburgh shooting. More so after discovering we knew one of the victims.
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Great post. I feel like it should be posted more widely. And I may want to join your curtailed life expectancy club.
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