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A comment on Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking. Parent comment

Re:Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking by retcond on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:29PM (#34727617)
How ever did we cope all the time before the recent few years of modern medicated ageing incarceration?
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Re:Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking by user982 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:34PM (#34727717)
The elderly died earlier.
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Re:Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking by cm2012 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:52PM (#34728132)
Yep. Before social security and medicaid, the USA had a ton of homeless and suffering elderly people.
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Re:Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking by riffic on Thursday February 09, 2023 @02:07PM (#34729427)
still does
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