Old people - yes or no?

[Lavarising]

It's all yours if you want it.

I'm definitely interested if I can get the time to write it. Thanks, dude.

 

[Ivan Shatov]

The thing about old people: they're just like young people. Some are a little useless, they don't have much to offer in terms of life experience or resources.

There are some badasses tho, people who fought wars, ran companies, did research, remember when America was a powerhouse. They can tell you who fucked what up and why it got this bad.

One of my best friends is 90, could easily pass for early-80s. He takes insulin when he shows up for my parties and has a basement filled with pre-ban automatic weapons. Has no problem calling soyboys faggots when he sees them. He flew aircav in Vietnam and has photos of himself posing with piles of dead Cong. He likes to talk politics, compares America to what it was like in the 70s, when everyone believed the Soviets had us beat. He talks about Reagan and compares Trump to him favorably.

Pains me to know he's not going to be there forever. Don't throw guys like him under the bus, they are your superiors.

 

[Salad Dodger]

I'll talk to/hang out with anyone as long as they're interesting. Though probably not kids or teenagers because that would be creepy.

 

[Some JERK]

My grandpa was 93 when he died. The last years for him were gruelingly horrible because he was terribly sick and every time i went for a visit he begged me to kill him. This is one of the cases i would support euthanising him because he's clearly suffering and he knew as well as me that he wasn't going to get any better.

I was in a nearly identical situation with my grandad. I won't go into specifics but he was about the same age, very bad off, and made a similar request which obviously I had to decline. In the end he took care of it himself by refusing to eat once he was finally hospitalized not too long after. His doctor told me that to force feed him would probably kill him anyway so he just allowed him to go. It sucked for everyone involved and I hate thinking about it. I agree with you 100% that there should definitely be better options at the end.

 

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

I find it interesting that a subset of people who REE about government intervention (usually talking about pods and bugs) and resent the idea of society at-large controlling their life are also perfectly fine with defining the value of human life as "how much labor you can provide to society at-large" if that means they get to kill someone's granny.

 

[The Great Chandler]

I think it's lazy as hell to get rid of an entire group. Not only an asshole thing to do, it's also gay.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

day of the pillow soon.

 

[Samson Pumpkin Jr.]

We must keep old people around for ancient wisdom, and also because old people are better than the average person, unless they're senile. If they become demented or develop some other form of mental illness then I believe it would be better to end their lives prematurely.
Old people are my friends. I believe I am one of the few that are truly qualified to work in a retirement home because I have lots of compassion for the elderly.

Old people have ancient rights because they lived to be that old. Like the general estates they preserve their rights to ancient rights they had in the past. Our governments should be run by older estates because so they have their ancient rights preserved. I'm not qualified to speak on this topic because im very biased i favour of old people, take my "opinions" with a grain of salt

 

[Sopressata]

It always cracks me up when young people talk about old people as if they are a different species and it will never happen to them. If you’re lucky you will be old one day too and realize how much insight you lacked when you were young wondering about those sad old people. A lot them are cringing watching young whippersnappers making the mistakes every person makes in life but they can’t tell you because you would think they were wrong or dumb and you wouldn’t listen anyway. I have worked with the elderly for many years and I fucking love them. If you speak to them the same way as you do anyone else, 90 percent of them will respond to you normally and a lot of them come out with some crazy shit. They are full of hilarity if asked the right questions and I would rather sit and talk to a mentally alert 80 year old about life and politics than a young person. If you don’t like them and you are thinking they are idiots with no clue about life ,chances are they are probably thinking exactly the same thing about you and hoping you’ll grow out of it eventually. They can have fascinating stories and perspectives. A lot of them are like little Buddha’s and they don’t even know it. Just by virtue of longevity they’ve been there done that and it amazes me that most of them are able to hold back like they do from telling a lot of people how fucking stupid they are and to get a grip.

 

[Alexander Thaut]

Hey look, one day we'll be the only ones left who can read. At that point, I'll go off to a room, look at the video of fields and flowers, and go to eternal sleep.

 

[Gnostic American]

It isn't 'old people' attending antifa and blm riots.

 

[Damien Thorne]

All I can say is that I miss the countless hours I spent watching Clint Eastwood westerns with my grandparents, who managed to keep their wits about them to the very end because they still took care of themselves even after they were 80. Too many people stop taking care of themselves after they retire, and that is tragic.