I'm a middle aged man living alone. My plan for when I need to die is to buy top loaded freezer and prepay my electric bill to give people at least few years to find my body, keeping the process as easy, for the unfortunates who do, and as clean as possible.
You think your demise will wait for you to step into the fridge? Rather than making these arrangements wouldn’t it be easier to connect to people in the same predicament and check on eachother from time to time?
South Korea's middle aged men are dying 'lonely deaths'
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What are some examples of proposed solutions that the progressive left would oppose?
Banning birth control. I don't support doing that myself, but if you look at the US two of the demographics with the highest reproduction rates are Mormons and Hispanic Catholics. Both follow religious prohibitions against birth control. The progressive left firmly supports the right to an abortion as well as the right to use contraceptives so that answers your question. From a demographic standpoint what's basically…
LDS fertility has dropped to replacement level rates. Church membership has been dropping, as well.
https://religionnews.com/2019/06/15/the-incredible-shrinking...
Latino birth rates have been declining as well-
https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/longevity/58...
> Muslims have a very high birth rate too
Muslims are not a monolithic bloc.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/15/iran-bans-vase...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-01/while-asi...
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#133I'm a middle aged man living alone. My plan for when I need to die is to buy top loaded freezer and prepay my electric bill to give people at least few years to find my body, keeping the process as easy, for the unfortunates who do, and as clean as possible.
I think someone will notice when you fail to pay the electric bill. But will someone notice before the freezer thaws completely?
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I think he doesn't want the people who eventually find him to have to deal with a decayed corpse, so they'll hop into a top-loaded freezer when they feel death is near to save them the hassle.
So many flaws in this plan. It's hard to know when is the "right time" for such a move.
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But like how would one know they are going to die and crawl in? That sounds impossible and/or extremely painful. You could die 20 years ahead of time this way. A better solution seems to be something like a Fitbit or Apple Watch with a dead man’s switch feature that calls in every day. But honestly this all seems like an absurd thing to worry about.
Hook up an apple watch or similar device to you while you live in the freezer that isn't turned on. Perhaps you just sleep in it. API call triggers if you die and it turns on, sends money to your utility provider from your bank.
But the ventilation required to live in it would mess up energy efficiency and cutting out the air on timer seems a bit risky.
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#136As with any male-specific problem, the progressive left will blame it on patriarchy and oppose any solution.
What are some examples of proposed solutions that the progressive left would oppose?
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But like how would one know they are going to die and crawl in? That sounds impossible and/or extremely painful. You could die 20 years ahead of time this way. A better solution seems to be something like a Fitbit or Apple Watch with a dead man’s switch feature that calls in every day. But honestly this all seems like an absurd thing to worry about.
I’m pretty sure there is one reliable way to predict one’s death, and I figure that’s the insinuation here. You’d need to be sure that someone would come looking for you before the power runs out otherwise it just a delay. My plan is to take increasingly death defying risks until my number comes up, that or paddle out into the ocean with a boat full of home made explosives.
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Activities have increasingly become profit focused. Not sure why friends couldn’t also be.
It's already a reality for dating. Ask the likes of Tinder. Still it didn't become any better.
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#139I'm a middle aged man living alone. My plan for when I need to die is to buy top loaded freezer and prepay my electric bill to give people at least few years to find my body, keeping the process as easy, for the unfortunates who do, and as clean as possible.
That is not the appropriate way to celebrate your 11'000 karma points :-) may 2023 bring all
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Dying in a reading club seems messier.
It could be any club. The idea is that you create relationships where someone is going to notice you are missing.