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One could argue that number should be close to 100%, as people would live to old age where eventually the body is just too worn to continue a good life.


under your system, when should Stephen Hawking have pulled the plug?


when he wanted to.


Most of society doesn't live a purely intellectual life, and wouldn't want to.




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