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[Droplet]

Probably the most deathist politician out there, or at least the one most open about his views:

Japan's new finance minister has claimed that the elderly should 'hurry up and die' to help ease the cost to the taxpayer of caring for them, it has emerged.

Taro Aso made the controversial statement as he discussed how to deal with the country's emerging demographic crisis as its population continues to shrink while life expectancy soars.

Aso, who said he would hate to be a burden on the state, told the national council on social security reforms: 'Heaven forbid if you are forced to live on when you want to die.

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Edited by Droplet, 23 January 2013 - 04:50 PM.

[niner]

I guess he'll get pilloried for that, at least in the Western media, but at this point, what are the options? Keep the elderly "alive", at least in a technical sense, at vast expense, while their quality of life sucks? I suppose they could take the money they save from, I don't know, shooting all the elders?, and invest it in SENS-like rejuvenation technology so that someday they don't have to do that any more. How silly. Perish the thought. They should just use it to give tax cuts to trillionaires. (In Japan, they have trillionaires, the Yen being as microscopic as it is.) I'm not sure this Aso's alleged statement qualifies him as a deathist, since he's not being presented with a reasonable option. He's just being realistic. He'd be a deathist if someone proposed research into rejuvenation technology and he said that would be a bad idea because people are "supposed to" die of aging.