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The most rapidly-aging industrial society - Japan

Kill Japan's elderly? Cannes film probes chilling idea

A Japanese filmmaker is shaking Cannes film audiences to the core with a dystopian vision of her country in which old people agree to be euthanised to solve the challenge of a rapidly aging population.

"Plan 75" by Japanese director and writer Chie Hayakawa is based on a very real problem.

[japantoday.com]?

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Ryo1 8 May 22
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Killing off older people would not solve their aging population problem. To solve that issue they need a much higher birth rate.

Japan seems suffering at both ends of the age spectrum.

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And here we are in America we are leaning toward forcing people to give birth. Definitely a different perspective. Wow - 75 isn't old yet! That's when most of us finally get wise enough to share some wisdom!

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Shades of “Logan’s Run”. Carousel for the really old.

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Kurt Vonnegut wrote about this 60 years ago:

[en.wikipedia.org]

BD66 Level 8 May 22, 2022
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