Should we prepare for mass Euthanasia?

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Yeah. Why do you need to "euthanize" yourself in response to... being shot by a firing squad (thats ending your life anyway)?

WTF is the original post talking about?

Maybe the original poster has "euthanizing"(mercy killing) confused with "eulogizing" (giving you final rites).

Don’t forget Chuck Norris; Bruce is noob in comparison.

Problem is once the methods for mass euthanasia are figured out they will probably be used for nefarious purposes instead of when they will be needed.

Would certainly be nice to have the option, IMO. Would be nice if people like me who have had poor quality of life for years and have minimal hope of that ever changing had the option, but that should require lots of time and a rigorous screening process to keep people from doing it spur of the moment over things that actually will improve over time and to make sure it was absolutely one hundred percent voluntary in every case. But something quicker would be nice if there was some sort of catastrophe that all but ensured death that we knew was imminent, so people could choose to essentially go to sleep and not wake up rather than be burned to death or slowly die of radiation poisoning or whatever other unpleasantness was all but guaranteed (but those who didn’t want to be euthanized even in that scenario should still not be forced to). But it would also take a lot of time and money that medical and pharmaceutical personnel could be putting toward other things, particularly at times like this when there’s a worldwide health crisis, to just produce the amount of medication necessary to allow for large-scale euthanasia, so there is the question of whether it would be a worthwhile investment to keep that on hand in case of such a catastrophe, which I can’t answer.

Something like this?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

Don't eat the "Soylent Green".


BTW, I wouldn't be surprised if god invented covid-19 to get rid of the old 'deadwood'.
It almost seems it was designed to kill off the old people and leave the young.

Bad, bad, naughty god!

Well perhaps by then we will have colonized pluto and beyond, or at least have created viable space stations. I mean I won't live long enough to see the sun destroy any planets so I am not too worried about it, but seems technological advances that allow us to move beyond the earth and maybe even this solar system are possible.

So even that may not be the end of humanity.

But we can always hope.

I'll be long gone by then, unless I am somehow able to have my consciousness downloaded into a robot body that then lasts that long. But that is unlikely to happen so I won't even live to see if humans make it that long or not, but its interesting to think about I suppose.

We don't need to kill people using euthanasia. The asteroid will do it.

Well exactly, I think I will take my chances with the asteroid than be willing to just be killed before the possibility of one hitting. I suspect a death via planet hit by gigantic asteroid big enough to wipe out humanity would be a quick enough death no need to jump in line to die before that though.

Lol at least if you don't kill yourself before the asteroid, you'll get to literally see a once in a lifetime event before you die.... If I had time I might even see if I could grab some acid or shrooms for the big event....just go out tripping looking at an asteroid hitting the earth, that may not even be such a bad death.

But keep your cyanide capsule handy.



And you will have a lot of company.



I imagine there would be a lot of copulation around that time.
'Death' and the threat of death is an aphrodisiac, after all.
Might as well go out with a bang.

Well that was enjoyable, a cover of that song I can respect....lol but already there is the tech people could pick their baby from a test tube practically and its only the year 2021.

Yup. Survive. Procreate. Repeat. On the market since Precambrian.


Based on the impact that killed dinosaurs?
In the impact zone - you have no time to feel anything before you die.
Further away - earthquakes, megatsunamis, fire storms. No fun but some would likely survive.
What finished off non-avian dinosaurs was planet-wide ecosystem collapse likely due to impact winter. Ecosystems that could be run of decaying matter (streams and rivers, insects and insectivores) survived better than those dependent on fresh photosyntesis (forests, oceans). Of larger organisms, either longevity (crocodilians, turtles) or ability to reproduce in cold conditions (mammals, birds) seems crucial.

Humans are omnivorous, can reproduce in cold and have been tampering with ecosystems for the last 10,000 years. While civilisations would likely collapse, survival of the species is very likely.
I would take my chance.

I have actually never seen Soylent Green, although I do know what soylent green is.

Kool-Aid anyone?