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A Yale professor of economics has suggested that the way to deal with Japan’s aging population may be mass suicide and mass “seppuku” \u2014 a form of ritual suicide that originated with ancient dishonored samurai and involves disembowelment.<\/p>\n

Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor at Yale with a large social media following in Japan, said in a 2021 interview, “I feel like the only solution [to the aging population<\/a>] is pretty clear. In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of the elderly?”<\/p>\n

In a separate interview, he said<\/a> that if someone doesn’t want<\/em> to end their life “[the] possibility of making [euthanasia] mandatory in the future will come up in discussion.”<\/p>\n

In addition, during a class last year, he was asked<\/a> to further explain his views. In response, according to reports, he showed a clip from the 2019 fill Midsommar, in which a cult forces an older member to jump off a cliff.<\/p>\n

“Whether that’s a good thing or not, that’s a more difficult question to answer,” Narita said. “So if you think that’s good, then maybe you can work hard toward creating a society like that.”<\/p>\n

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Narita told The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0this week that his statements were “taken out of context.” He claimed he was addressing the effort to push older workers out of leadership positions in business and politics.<\/p>\n

Japan has a plunging birth rate and its population has shrunk by 500,000 people, putting the nation in a “demographic squeeze,” according to the NYT<\/a>. The country also has the highest public debt in the developed world and the government is unsure<\/a> how to handle its pension obligations. For Narita, the solution seems to be to kill people through potentially forced suicide.<\/p>\n

Certain nations already allow euthanasia for people who do not have terminal illnesses.<\/p>\n

In 2022, a Colombian man accessed<\/a> euthanasia with cameras rolling because of a lung condition that was not considered terminal. Canada is preparing to approve euthanasia for individuals with mental health concerns<\/a> while facing\u00a0criticism<\/a> for offering assisted dying to a veteran who wanted nothing more than help making her home accessible. Canadian doctors have expressed that they are being pressured<\/a> to promote euthanasia to patients to save the government money. And in the Netherlands<\/a>, an elderly woman was already forcibly euthanized when the doctor ordered her family to hold her down. The doctor was cleared of all wrongdoing in her death.<\/p>\n

According to the Daily Mail<\/a>,\u00a0Narita spreads his pro-death message on social media as well as in comedy shows and energy drink ads, and on TikTok.<\/p>\n

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