Should we prepare for mass Euthanasia?

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I had to laugh inwardly when I read this. I love your thinking BTW. Just seems a bit grim though.

I think that if this kind of thing was to happen in the near or distant future then we will be fully prepared for it. Idk society at large has a way of grooming itself to a point where we just accept things. We do have our rebels and the ones who follow the rebels etc but these are few and far between. Yes I believe that if we ever did get to a point of mass and euthanasia then the world will be too fat, lazy, drugged up and/or brainwashed that we will have anaesthetised ourselves.

Sign me up.

I have already been a member of 'Exit'.
https://exitinternational.net/

Looks fine to me.
Like I said, sign me up.

When I was a kid, I used to wonder why death had to invariably be a painful experience.
I used to wonder why we couldn't expire in a similar way that a battery runs out of energy.

Then I realised that god was a cruel bastardo, and I could have done a better job in designing the world, myself.

I'd rather die like that than have a "death by a 1,000 cuts".

What if you will be everywhere?

I'm not saying there aren't worse and less-worse ways to die, but... Do you trust any government whatsoever to never misuse an explicit power to "mass euthanize" its own population?

If an entity has the practical power and lawful approval to readily do it with people's consent, then it has the practical power to readily do it without that consent. And if an entity has such an incredible power, it will abuse it. It's not even cynicism, it's human society 101.

There will always be a handful of other ones - just the nature of big numbers - ones willing to survive no matter what.

You mentioned the idea of nuking our own cities or conventional weapons to accomplish the mass euthanasia. I don't think that could be entirely voluntary as I doubt everyone in a whole city/town would collectively agree to be wiped out also nukes specifically do damage beyond just the immediate area they hit.

If there is a way to make it entirely voluntary than fine...since that leaves an option to opt out.

I don't think that's correct. If you nuke the asteroid, you don't push it away. At best, you crack it a bit. At worst, you just have a lot of smaller, radioactive asteroids with the same total mass and therefore the same total force. We're talking about a rock potentially 5-10km in diameter. A 7m (yes, different unit) asteroid has the same amount of energy as the Hiroshima bomb, a 7km one would be beyond our power and would cause a mass extinction. We don't have nearly the space capabilities to do anything about it. It takes about four years to build a rocket, and we wouldn't have four years of warning, and we have never built a rocket big enough.

Humanity would probably survive the immediate impact, but chances are strong that society wouldn't. Doomsday preppers with large stashes of tins of food might last long enough to emerge. But frankly our best chance is developing self-sufficient colonies. I would put one on the south pole of the Moon (in the Shackleton crater) and then try to develop one on Mars that could eventually cover the whole planet. By the time we have developed the technology to re-direct asteroids, it will be time to start thinking about colonising Venus.


I think it's still a matter of debate whether the Sun will even actually engulf Earth, but certainly it will end all life on Earth and probably make things very tough on Mars (maybe we could survive deep underground?). I also wonder about Ceres, although the lack of gravity might be a problem.

Pluto however would still be very deep in space, and has very low gravity. My suggestion would be moons, particularly Callisto and Titan. By that stage, if we're still around then we should have the technology to deal with the radiation problem that makes Ganymede and Europa uninhabitable, so they would also be options.

my home state of washington legalized euthanasia a few years back, the doc prescribes the drugs and the patient takes them at home.

As I have said on many occasions:
"My life, My choice".



I am not advocating for government-initiated mass-euthanasia.
*That* is god's responsibility.

Planet Killing Asteroid pending.

Obviously, there would be a "Community Announcement" which would direct people to designated euthanasia locality.
Have faith.

Well certainly more reasonable than nuking a whole city because some people in it would rather die now than face what may happen beyond that. I do not have an issue with voluntary euthanasia I would certainly question mass euthanasia but if people wanted to willingly sign up I have to defer to:
'One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.'

So if people choose euthanasia I have no right to stop them. It gets a little more complicated with suicide specifically, like in response to depression and mental health stuff since some suicide attempts are certainly not a like thought out like choice made reasonably and a lot of suicidal people don't actually, actually want to die they just want a relief to the pain and that can sometimes seem the only way. but even so some people who are sound of mind certainly have decided to kill themselves, even one of the police officers that was there when the insurrection at the capital happened and killed himself after seems to be a case of that.

I didn't mean to destroy it but to push it out of collision course, in a manner similar to Project Orion propulsion. Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_ ... ive_device

It is within the nature of man to survive.

Generally one needs a clear understanding of the threat and then to physically take appropriate actions to overcome the threat.

In the hypothetical of an asteroid impact. Asteroids and comet fragments come in many sizes. In general, if a threat appeared, the most likely avenue to survival is avoidance. It would be to evacuate the area near the impact. Essentially beyond the blast zone of 1 psi overpressure. This would be very similar to the techniques commonly used to evacuate an area along the coast when a large hurricane is expected to make landfall.

Depends on the size of the asteroid. Something like this could wipe us out pretty quick.