that's not what i meant.
in ancient cultures old people are traditionally killed.
this was a custom in Japan for example.
and tribesmen would kill anybody too old to climb a palm tree.
social security is a recent invention.
in the nature you don't die from old age - you are killed.
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it's not that people are longer lived today
it's that they cling to life more
in Russia if you're over 55 the ambulance doesn't come
Americans are a bunch of pussies who first try to avoid death and then try to go to heaven
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I was responding to the musings about age 40 from Tirza in a philosophical sense but I see where you are coming from.
When I visited Indochina I saw few old people even today, although the exceptions were rich people or Buddhist monks living in monasteries.
