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Why the World Needs to Rethink Retirement
On 2018-12-18 1:02 a.m., Rod Speed wrote:
"%" wrote in message ... On 2018-12-17 10:40 p.m., Rod Speed wrote: wrote in message ... "Rod Speed" wrote: wrote: Steve Walker wrote: Max Demian wrote: wrote: Why the World Needs to Rethink Retirement By Katie Robertson, Dec. 4, 2018, NY Times [...] "A 30-to-40-year retirement is very different than a 10- or 20-year retirement." [...] Not much "rethinking" evident in the article, just stating existing conditions and possible problems with it. What is the (presumably relatively youthful) author proposing? Work 'til you drop? Greatly increased retirement age? Retirees retraining for different jobs? All very well for the pundits in rewarding jobs, but the vast majority of people get fed up with working and just don't want to do it any more. Increasing the retirement age makes sense, but if so, there should be some sort of variable version to allow those with life shortening conditions to retire earlier, so that they are not expected to work until they drop. We should stop making flu shots and MMR vaccines, to control population more in line with nature's way. No need anymore. Not one modern first world country is even self replacing if you take out immigration. And **** all would die of flu without flu shots anyway. Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, (1849-1919) was a Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of physicians, and he was the first to bring medical students out of the lecture hall for bedside clinical training. He has frequently been described as the Father of Modern Medicine and one of the "greatest diagnosticians ever to wield a stethoscope". But clearly doesn't have a ****ing clue about what makes sense with this sort of public policy. Osler is well known in the field of gerontology for the speech he gave when leaving Hopkins to become the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. "The Fixed Period", given on Feb 22, 1905, included some controversial words about old age. Osler, was in his mid-fifties when he gave the speech and in it he mentioned Anthony Trollope's The Fixed Period (1882), which envisaged a college where men retired at 67 and after being given a year to settle their affairs, would be "peacefully extinguished by chloroform". Clearly off with the ****ing fairys by then. And chloroform is a stupid way to do it too. He claimed that, "the effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty" That's bull**** too, if only when considering what happens with the grandkids when their parents are both working, something he clearly knew **** all about. and it was downhill from then on. Nothing even remotely like that for me. Osler's speech was covered by the popular press which headlined their reports with "Osler recommends chloroform at sixty". It would be a ****ing sigh more surprising if they had not. The concept of mandatory euthanasia for humans after a "fixed period" (often 60 years) became a recurring theme in 20th century imaginative literature -for example, Isaac Asimov's 1950 novel Pebble in the Sky. Irrelevant to how much sense that makes. Clearly **** all believe it makes and sense because **** all have chosen to do it that way with something other than chloroform and certainly havent actually been stupid enough to allow any govt to do it like that. In the 3rd edition of his Textbook, he also coined the description of pneumonia as "the old man's friend" since it allowed elderly individuals a quick, comparatively painless death. Coincidentally, Osler himself died of pneumonia. No loss. driveway ****way crushed gravel driveway |
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