Why GenX and Younger Won't Age.
In the early 1990’s, I had a non-fantasy idea that would make me a billion dollars. I knew it would make me a billion dollars simply because the industry didn’t exist yet. There were no options.
I wanted to create this industry as a thirteen-year-old because I already knew that none of my friends were going to age like grandmothers.
I knew that every single generation that came right after mine would be as cynical about aging as me. Previous generations were shielded from the madness. GenX babies and beyond? We got madness.
Early. We got jokes early. We are monsters, and yet we haven’t addressed something that’s coming our way.
A peak human event is going to change entirely for GenX, Millennials, GenZ, and generations to come, and I’m the only one I know who can’t shut up about it.
This peak human event is death, and the billion dollar industry of which I speak is physician-assisted death.
In the U.S., physician-assisted death is legal in jurisdictions of:
California, Colorado, Hawaii, Montana, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, and Vermont.
Girls? Give me a funeral that I can attend when I’m ninety or when I’m done with my body and knowledge on this plane. We will have a dance party until we pass out on a giant bed with our pets and tell all our secrets. Then a doctor can give me some sleepy-dead concoction, and I can die happy.
The way previous generations have dealt with dying is lame.
It’s also so slow to change. GenX and beyond are so much more progressively obnoxious about self-care and our personal needs than previous generations.
At the age of thirteen, I wondered why doctors couldn't just help us die nicely when the time was right. They help us get through everything else that hurts. And I wondered that because I knew: there’s no fucking way anyone wants to age at all.
Someone is going to start profiting off gentle death... It may as well be one of us. Can someone please organize this industry so I have options. I would rather have a fun death to plan and look forward to in 2077 than whatever the hell I'm doing now.
Why won’t we age and die the way previous generation aged and died?
The majority of us hate it.
Previous generations just did the things they hated.
I honestly don't plan on dying. It's such an inconceivable event, that I'm going to just ignore it, like dishes in the sink.
My mom had a medically assisted death and it was the best it could be- peaceful, painless and dignified. She was way past dancing though. I don't see the money making possibilities (but I am Canadian)