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Mar 24, 2020
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Indy Coug
Loquacious Lummox
When someone who is really old who has a severe chronic condition, extending their life
is typically measured in weeks or months, not years.
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Just talked to a friend after his 14 day quarantine on return from Italy.
JAGA97
3/24/20 12:53pm
Is that tradition due to a different cultural view of death or is it due to the practical limitations of their
Indy Coug
3/24/20 12:56pm
I don't know. This is what he said about his father. He got to the hospital and
JAGA97
3/24/20 1:01pm
It's just like on Midsommar.
Jeff Spicoli
3/24/20 12:57pm
How can the world's oldest population have a tradition of not extending people
coug almighty
3/24/20 12:59pm
I had the same thought.
JAGA97
3/24/20 1:01pm
When someone who is really old who has a severe chronic condition, extending their life
Indy Coug
3/24/20 1:01pm
Yeah I mistook it as attending to their health, extension yeah that is something
coug almighty
3/24/20 1:12pm
It's also not that they have older people, but that they have fewer younger folk
Plato
3/24/20 1:19pm
Why not? Just because they don't extend lives with medical care, doesn't mean
Kerbouchard
3/24/20 1:20pm
Italy and Spain are both high population density countries. "Suburbs" like in
Kerbouchard
3/24/20 1:17pm
Death panels at their best with socialized medicine.
coolblue
3/24/20 1:19pm
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