Do you think about getting old?

[alreadypacked]

When I read stuff like this, I think the pension issue in Europe is nowhere near fixed.

A study in the Lancet last year suggested that half of babies born after 2000 will reach 100.

BBC News - Why can't we imagine ourselves getting old?

For the last 50 or so years life expectancy has been increasing at a rate of six hours a day.

[BlasterBates]

It's time to think the unthinkable, to pay for pensions I estimate taxes will probably have to go up beyond 100%.

[scooterscot]

No.

Entropy, there's no escaping it so accept it.

Accepting makes me celebrate the fact I've survived another trip round the sun.

Where I choose to live in my later years concerns me a lot more though.

[scooterscot]

It's time to think the unthinkable, to pay for pensions I estimate taxes will probably have to go up beyond 100%.

And on that day the tittle 'GP' shall actually mean Get Paid.

[oracleslave]

Where I choose to live in my later years concerns me a lot more though.

Regardless of country it'll likely include a bunker where you can wink to your hearts content over the last Mac keyboard.

[alreadypacked]

But would you agree with

The novelist Martin Amis argued last year that the answer might be "euthanasia booths on every street corner".

[eek]

But would you agree with

For Martin Amis yes. Would it be legal to help him into one and switch it on.

[MarillionFan]

I think we need to start a Logans Run ePetition that anyone over the age of 40 should be incinerated for people born after 1970.

[scooterscot]

Regardless of country it'll likely include a bunker where you can wink to your hearts content over the iPad

FTFY.

[MrRobin]

I think we need to start a Logans Run ePetition that anyone over the age of 40 should be incinerated for people born after 1970.

How do I apply as position of Sandman?