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Re:Scheduled to Die: The Rise of Canada’s Assisted Suicide P... by temp2022account on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @12:01PM (#34150620)
That's amazing, if 5% of the entire world chose to die each year the average human lifespan would be 20
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Re:Scheduled to Die: The Rise of Canada’s Assisted Suicide P... by eloff on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @12:28PM (#34151067)
It’s 5% of deaths, not of the population.
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Re:Scheduled to Die: The Rise of Canada’s Assisted Suicide P... by quantified on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @12:04PM (#34150661)
Depends on which 5%...
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Re:Scheduled to Die: The Rise of Canada’s Assisted Suicide P... by xvedejas on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @12:23PM (#34150982)
Even if it's the oldest 5%, _eventually_ you'd reach even lower than 20 because the population isn't growing at anything near a rate of 5% per year, and so you'd run out of people that old quickly. You'd see an exponential decline in the Canadian population, halving every 14 years. A -5% rate per year is an extremely unlikely thing to keep up for long
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Re:Scheduled to Die: The Rise of Canada’s Assisted Suicide P... by flanflan on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @12:51PM (#34151389)
Again this is 5% _of deaths_ not 5% of the population. So it's roughly in line with the number of people who die from random accidents in a given year.
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