24 de enero de 2010

Euthanasia booths


The novelist Martin Amis has called for euthanasia booths on street corners, where elderly people can end their lives with 'a martini and a medal'.
The author of Time’s Arrow and London Fields even predicts a Britain torn by internal strife in the 2020s if the demographic timebomb of the ageing population is not tackled head-on.
'How is society going to support this silver tsunami?' he asks in an interview in The Sunday Times Magazine today.
'There’ll be a population of demented very old people, like an invasion of terrible immigrants, stinking out the restaurants and cafes and shops. I can imagine a sort of civil war between the old and the young in 10 or 15 years’ time'.
Amis, himself 60 and a grandfather, added: 'There should be a booth on every corner where you could get a martini and a medal'.

Times

Mucha gente se pregunta si -en ciertas circunstancias especiales- morir no es un derecho humano.

1 comentario:

Voromir dijo...

Bioy Casares fue un visionario.

Menos mal que mis abuelos ya partieron a mejor vida.

¿Que pondrán en las susodichas cabinas?

Voy a ponerme a ver algo de cine distópico, a estas alturas es como una bola de cristal en DVDs.

Mientras no se dé algo tipo "Soylent green"...