re: Tiredness of life: the growing phenomenon in western society

Our shallow culture has celebrated youth since the Sixties. It’s a tragedy that our culture doesn’t mine the wisdom that our elders could provide like older societies used to do. It’s all about marketing and money and, therefore, the emphasis is on the 20-50 demographic.

We need to post the Ten Commandments in retirement communities.

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Anyone being honest sees the potential appeal/charity that would go with allowing an older woman whose entire family has predeceased her to leave early.

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Agreed. But her situation seems like an outlier compared to the number of terminally ill.

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how our society views life and death.

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Yeah, those views are evolving.

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I'll never stop doing something.

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My paw paw got to the point where he couldn't do anything he enjoyed anymore the last 7-8 years of his life. Just sit in the recliner pretty much. He outlived all of his friends, all 9 siblings, his wife by 20 years.

His kids, grandkids, great grandkids visited as much as possible but I think he was past ready to go at 99.

We really need a modern renaissance.
We need a move away from toxic social media, shitty food, corporatism of medicine, and renewed racial tensions.
Our ancestors did some shitty stuff but they also allowed us to get to this point. Life is literally a video game at this point with very little physical suffering if you play your cards right

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American novelist Philip Roth

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Nihilistic atheist miserable self-loathing a-hole statist-leftist whose tedious verbosity was outweighed only by his self-congratulatory vituperations. I’ll take anything he said with a grain of nonKosher salt.

Western Society doesn't respect elders like societies like Japan do. The elderly have a wealth of information and wisdom, but most act like they just need to die and get out of the way. Go visit your grandparents/parents if you're still lucky enough to have them.

That said, the elderly need to make their own purpose in what is remaining of their lives, no matter how small it is.

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Nihilistic atheist miserable self-loathing a-hole statist-leftist

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It seems to be a very popular lifestyle choice today. An attempt to create a detached utopia doesn't even sound like something humans can handle.

When people stop struggling with life externally they start struggling internally and ultimately destroy themselves.

John Prine-Hello in there

We had an apartment in the city
Me and Loretta liked living there
Well, it'd been years since the kids had grown
A life of their own, left us alone
John and Linda live in Omaha
And Joe is somewhere on the road
We lost Davy in the Korean war
And I still don't know what for, don't matter anymore

You know that old trees just grow stronger
And old rivers grow wilder every day
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello"

Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more
She sits and stares through the back door screen
And all the news just repeats itself
Like some forgotten dream that we've both seen
Someday I'll go and call up Rudy
We worked together at the factory
What could I say if he asks "What's new?"
"Nothing, what's with you? Nothing much to do"

You know that old trees just grow stronger
And old rivers grow wilder every day
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello"

So if you're walking down the street sometime
And spot some hollow ancient eyes
Please don't just pass 'em by and stare
As if you didn't care, say, "Hello in there, hello"

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western society

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Keywords.

Just a bunch of nihilistic drivel not reflected in other societies that value their elderly.