Geoffrey, I agree, but less people living a longer and better life is IMHO desirable.
YCHTT, I am going to die prematurely. I know that to live a longer life I must exercise more, eat less fatty food, drink a lot less and generally be more puritanical. I don't smoke, but in all other respects live a risky life. If I live a long life I will be pleasantly surprised, but I'd rather die young enjoying myself. If people stopped focussing on a long life and lived a full life we could get the population down. (It doesn't matter at what age you die, you still make use of 90% of the NHS facilities you will use in life in the last 2 years of that life.)
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