Samuel Moyn
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
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a burden or useless.
It's actually our ancestors, some of the pre-moderns I talk about in the book, who did have euthanasia, even like euthanasia accepted by the aging when they were burdensome.
We live in circumstances in the wealthiest country in the world that we should never tell anyone that they're a burden.
On the contrary, we have the resources to
You know, as long as doctors can perpetuate life, not to, you know, provide immortality.
That's Brian Johnson talking for an elite, but at least to provide care to the end.
Do you want to be a burden?
I definitely want to impose a lot of burdens on my children to take care of me in the future, and I am already talking about it.
They are critics of my hoarding of books, among other things, and insisting that I divest myself.
of those things so that they don't have to.
But I think it's eminently just for me to be a burden on the future, on my own children or my society generally.
If there's a point at which I'm nothing but burden, including to myself, because I have nothing left to create or explore, then maybe I should have the choice.
To exit on my own terms rather than in some other way, because there will be an exit.
I have not with my father, to whom my book is dedicated, who died long enough ago that I didn't have the chance.
My mother is still alive and thriving in her 80s.
We have talked about it now and again.
My father-in-law, who did recently pass away, we talked about these issues all the time because he was a realist.
But I've also had the benefit of going to his synagogue and talking to many people who
are actively as aging Americans thinking about these issues every day.
And I think it's been a kind of fascinating conversation to interact precisely with not so much in my own direct family, but with older people generally who are all over the map on these matters.
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