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A Modest Proposal - for terminating the life of any one who reaches the age of eighty.  

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A Modest Proposal FOR TERMINATING THE LIFE OF ANYONE WHO REACHES THE AGE OF EIGHTY It is distressing, to say the least, when we visit a relative in hospital and are forced to walk through wards which are destined for nothing but death. You look from left to right and all you see are elderly people on their last legs ready for the next world. It is hard not to then call to mind the hundreds of ill children and teenagers who have many years ahead of them, yet are stuck on lengthy waiting lists for beds which are not available. Had the aged people been removed from the world at the age of eighty, not only would they have fulfilled most of their "useful" life, but their beds would be free for the more needy. The majority of people have done everything they want in their lifetime and many would...

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