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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Assisting your Dad is modeling loving behavior to your children." It's actually giving your kids a bad role model for aging, so they see the elderly as childlike, petulant and unable to do anything for themselves.  The Longitudinal Study of Generations from California has shown that the boomers are actually the first group that did this caregiving en masse.  Before that the boomer parents and grandparents actually did not support the elderly very much, even for living relatives. They would move and let the elders fend for themselves and the parents were okay with that.

I agree with [b]Emanuel Ezekiel[/b], we are living too long.  I don't have kids to dump on so I have to be proactive.  No cancer screening, medical aid in dying for anything that qualifies and "business class to Zurich" for early Alzheimer's.  I believe in quality not quality of life and let younger people live a normal life.[/quote]
 
So from one study you have managed to convince yourself that helping others is not modeling loving behavior? Do you even have kids? If so maybe you shouldn't have.
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I think you mean Ezekiel "Zeke" Emanuel, a physician who was a health policy adviser in the Obama administration and was chief of the Department of Bioethics at the Clinical Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. (He's also the brother of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Bill Clinton's former chief-of-staff.)

Here's his 2014 article in the Atlantic, in which he argues that quality of life often declines significantly after about age 75 as health problems become more likely, and that folks should reconsider the mindset that says one should do everthing one can to extend one's life as quality of life worsens.

Why I Hope to Die at 75
An argument that society and families—and you—will be better off if nature takes its course swiftly and promptly
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/10/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/
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Good grief.  I have known plenty of 80+ year old people who have had perfectly good quality of life in their advanced years.  I don't trust a person who takes such a one size fits all approach to aging.  It shows a complete lack of respect towards the elderly and human life in general which is a terrible shame.[/quote]

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