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No need for medical procedures. There was this scheme in Greece, where people would simply not report deaths of their parents, bury them secretly in the backyard, and continued to receive their pension payments.

There's a dual to that in life insurance, where it incentivizes procedures (or inaction) to shorten life.

The Social Security scam in the US. Encourage people to eat poorly by making healthy food less subsidized compared corn filled garbage and watch as your workers spend a whole careers working while eating poorly to generate value only to die off at retirement as they start to collect on their hard earned effort.

Could fix that by making assisted suicide an option for the patient. Patient has to live, and want to live.

You have to assume the patient has mental capacity to make that decision. I saw first hand family member without DNR went through. I don't want that for anyone.

Good point.

surley brain in a jar is the more logical outcome?