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Originally Posted by bhutocracy
Yeah retirement homes have to keep armed guards at the entrance to keep the oldies from rushing in away from their families like an end of year sale.. Get fucked. Honestly. Loneliness is one of the single biggest issues facing the elderly aside from actually dying. It may be a "cliche" that the elderly woman will talk your ear off for half an hour at the bus stop because you're the only human contact she's had for several days.. but it's a cliche because it's fucking true. Technology? Grand Theft Auto: Florida won't come and visit to support you while you're fighting cancer. But believe whatever you want if it makes you happy.
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this is getting off the original topic of the sterilization issue, but really, times have changed, people are way more self sufficient than they ever have been in history, and it will become even more so, human interaction is at your fingertips now, when we are older we are not going to magically change into different "lonely" people, if you are happy now with no kids or other people around to bother you, then it will be the same when you are 70.... having kids to stave off loneliness is just silly anyways, the costs are way too high in what you would have to give up in your life... I don't understand how people can get lonely nowadays with all the communications we have at our fingertips and people all around if you really need face to face
by the way, when you are in a hospital fighting cancer, you really don't want any visitors anyways