I think society has become so weak and feminized that we refuse to accept that death is inevitable and that eventually we are all going to go. If I was 70 or 80, I would tell everyone that I’d be willing to take a chance on the coof taking me out so that younger generations can live and enjoy life as I was able to. People are dating, they aren’t starting families, they aren’t getting anywhere in their career. We have chaos and fear everywhere. Who wants to live like this? I have a higher chance than most people to have corona chan take me out, but I’d much rather take a chance of dying being able to live my life than living wishing my life as I know it is over. If it isn’t covid, something else will come along.
Over 30k people die in the US every single day, why is an extra 2k going from one category of deaths of another such a big deal? Covid moves up someone demise by maybe 6-12 months, is that worth destroying the lives of the young and healthy?
Here's the issue, as you have alluded to. 100-200 years ago everyone was familiar with death. Death rate was very high, especially for children, and life expectancy short. Medical knowledge still developing, no antibiotics, not that many effective drugs. Little in the way of vaccinations.
Epidemics happened all the time, especially in the years before 1920. Not uncommon, in the case of a cholera epidemic, for someone healthy in the morning to be dead by nightfall. Or to lose all the children in a family in just a few days.
Most houses of any substance had a parlor where the dead family member would be laid out before burial. No embalming until around 1860, rarely a fancy casket. Family and friends would gather and mourn the deceased. The deceased would be buried at home or in a nearby cemetery. Death was an actual part of life back then.
Around 1920 or so, all the gains made in public sanitation and medicine started to become apparent. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 did a lot to eliminate the shit snake oil salesmen passed off as "cures" for cancer, tuberculosis (MAJOR killer), etc. More effective drugs were being developed, such as penicillin. Better vaccines. Advances in surgery/treatment. Death rate went down, life expectancy went up. Lather, rinse, repeat until the present day.
Read in Dr. Stanley B. Burns'
Sleeping Beauty (Volume 1) thirty years ago that the natural causes death rate for children is about as low as it can go absent gene manipulation. I believe it. We can vaccinate against just about any disease a child in 1900 could die of. We routinely successfully treat tuberculosis. Have made a lot of progress against cancer.
Many, if not most people in advanced countries never see a dead person outside of a funeral home. It is usually many years before a child experiences the death of a parent, or a parent the death of a child. Or people will see pictures/images of dead people in print/other media. Most people still die in a hospital/nursing home/hospice. Very few die naturally at home.
Death has largely become sanitized in advanced countries, so much as to be almost abstract. Everyone knows they will die someday, but they really never expect it to happen. That's why you see so many people living in such unwarranted fear of the ChiCom Flu. Maybe 200,000 dead so far. Six months plus. We've lost at least three times that many since 1 January from heart disease and cancer alone in our country. About 3,000,000 Americans die every year from all causes. "Nobody gets out of life alive."
And I can tell you that the prospect of death will concentrate the mind wonderfully. You drop any pretensions of abstractness. You fight as hard as you can. Sometimes you win, sometimes you run out of time. In the end, we all run out of time. But nobody needs to be a little bitch about it.
Added: I'll wait until a ChiCom Flu vaccine has proven itself to be safe before I get it. Have NO intention to die as someone's guinea pig. STILL don't know ANYONE who has or has had this disease.
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