I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
You are so right.....the end part of a person's life should not define the whole person.
And Katie your right! The way a persons died should not define them, but what they did in this world...the person they were should be remembered.
It is sad about that lady, but I would like to think that someone from the otherside was with her as she cross over!
Then, they die alone, in their small apartments. Their bodies usually are not discovered until neighbors notice the foul smell. There wasn't before, but there is now a new business trade that specializes in going into those apartments to remove the dead bodies (with respect), clean out the apartments and properly sanitize them.
Japan's population is slowly going down according to the news articles. In some old towns, young people move away to big cities for jobs, leaving the old behind to take care of the even older ones.
That will also be the downfall of the Japanese economy for there will not be enough young people to take their jobs. They have gone to the other extreme of being very respectful of their families. From what I've read, this is also why there is such a large sex industry in Japan.
I had read that young people here in the U.S was not having children even aftering getting married, but I am surprise hearing about that in Japan. Don't they always want a son to carry on the name and the family traditions? It is interesting to hear what is going on in other countries.
Our birth to death ratio in the US is very good at the moment. I hope it stays that way. There are three times the number of people born each year above the number dying each year.
"The aging population of the United States is propelling the nation toward a milestone: A historic increase in the number of deaths every year. Deaths are projected to reach more than 3.6 million in 2037, 1 million more than in 2015. Oct 24, 2017"
From something else that I read the low birth rate among millennial will impact their parent's plans and income for retirement as they want to sell the house that they bought years ago for their family and want to downsize plus make money. However, there might not be such a good market for family houses. This makes me glad that my wife and I got rid of our "family" house 2 years ago and downsized. Well, that's too much about me. Nite
What does "not enough" mean? Not enough from what point of view, or from whose point of view?
To maintain our current pyramid scheme policy of social security? No, of course not, because it depends on continuous growth of the contributing base. That's why they always collapse, leaving shareholders with an empty bag, and that's why our financial regulators have made them illegal in all commercial contexts. This is not an admission you are ever going to hear from a political leader who is hoping to get elected.
To sustain our national demographic profiles as we are used to their being? Follow this line and what you mean is there are not enough of the right sort of babies being born, and I really don't think we want to go there.
To continue human domination of the planet? H'm. I haven't noticed it's short of babies. I suspect the planet wouldn't mind a very substantial fall in the human birth rate, and a bit of a rest.
But assuming that it's true that we don't have enough numbers in the succeeding generations to sustain the lifestyle and social structures we have become accustomed to, we had better get used to it and think of something else, probably something technological. People will be short of help. People will die. But that's what people do anyway, it's only a matter of sooner or later and in more or less comfortable circumstances. It isn't a calamity or an apocalypse on the scale of things.
And, besides, even if you DO come to the conclusion that birthrates have fallen below optimum levels within a given context, whaddaya going to do about it, eh? Get busy???
And, then? What then?
What incentive does this create for a prosperous and responsibly-minded young person to saddle himself with the financial commitment of children, in this uncertain world?
BTW, the forum is rife with politics and religion.
Happy Birthday Krispy Kreme!
My mother is extremely demanding and always has her own agenda that I am to follow or else...Physically she gets around fine, mentally she has always been very unstable and has been showing signs of dementia for a while but its been worse since April. She is helpless one minute and the next doing whatever she feels like doing. She is insistent that I stay and take care of her but I didn't budget for the constant care she has been demanding. She will not take any responsibility for her own health and relies on me to take all the phone calls, get her to her appointments and make sure she is taking all her meds and eye drops. I can't do this 24/7 much longer and will need to find a full time job with insurance. (Not to mention having an adult conversations with well...adults). I don't know how I will cope with working full time and then spending all my free time taking care of my mother.
I guess it set me off today because even though she brings me her confusion regarding her financial stuff, she will not listen to me about any of the suggestions I have made and eventually will bring it back to me over and over again. This has happened enough I no longer feel much compassion and that isn't me.
Today she brought me $20.00 and said it was for me. Sigh. I just yesterday gave 40.00 to my sister because she complained about taking my mother in her car to her eye appointments and that mom did not buy her lunch.
What my siblings need to know is that I am not beholden to them, to our mother nor am I responsible for their own relationships with our mother. You want mom to pay for your gas and lunch? Then you need to tell her instead of complaining to me.
Venting....
As for our dwindling population. I sometimes have thought that tsunamis, floods, hurricanes, plane crashes etc. are preordained to keep the population down. Maybe an ignorant thought but a thought nonetheless.
As for millennials. I don't see a lot of potential there. I have to be honest. I see a lot of sense of entitlement. I have millennial nieces and nephews who think they know it all and yet would not be able to function if the world wide web ever shut down. Call me cynical.
Riversway, I feel ya. My siblings couldn't wait to crow whenever they did anything to help which was rarely. I'd get e-mails from my narc sister itemizing what she had done. I think if people expect some kind of return for doing a kind service maybe their heart is not in the right place for caregiving. It's usually a thankless job as many have attested to on here.
This website is *fascinating* - it's a world population clock. I say fascinating, I think I mean dizzying.
https://population.io/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=population&campaignid=1695828135&adgroupid=67217291985&adid=337160381448&gclid=CjwKCAjwg-DpBRBbEiwAEV1_-P9vSN0mH1urkQYxCaN0-6_fDkDvvxM2j-BmekV3_DmlEqYO2rx7bhoCrnoQAvD_BwE
7,683,424,471 human individuals on the planet, and it will have gone up by another few dozen while I typed this sentence.
(spoken)
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
(sung)
And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough,
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
(waltz)
Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
Ah yes, I've gained so much perspective.
I doubt she’d find it funny now -although she asked me to shoot her up in the air -
like that’s somehow going to get her to heaven 😂🤣