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> The only way around this is to let those people starve or implement UBI.

False dilemma. There are other methods to implement tax and redistribute. Additionally some countries like Canada and Switzerland are taking the lead in offering legal frameworks for life management solutions.

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Please say more about "legal frameworks for life management solutions". You can't just drop those words in that order with no further context and walk away.

What is there to add? People have a growing need to make and express choices about hastening unavoidable eventualities. Willing service providers need legal protections and the ability to document a person’s choices. In Switzerland this has grown into a minor tourist industry.

https://www.swissbiz.ca/is_article.php?articleid=47

Switzerland and Canada are hardly taking the lead; I live in a US state where assisted suicide has been legal for 27 years.

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