Quick comment posted on Tom Barnetts site about the  right to assisted suicide

Pay as you go Life model

Not so distant Sci-Fi scenario

How about we get a pill that extends life to a useful 160.
Depending on your income…some can go as far as an elderly  180…most get to 140.
Government subsidies help you to 120.
Could we be burying healthy people one day….
You could walk to your own funeral.
If the treatment l was equivalent to a years average salary….we would quite an interesting scenario….
A financial crisis like the one the Bankers were invovled in could result in mass burials….( after the Government subsidy had gone )