Wouldn’t the life insurance policy be void anyway if he killed himself? Why would he cite that as a reason to take his life?

Does life insurance still apply when it’s a suicide?

Aren’t most (all?) life insurance policies void for suicides?

Now I’m generally on the side of ignoring and isolating narcissists and the like from the rest of society.

Unless the penis becomes sentient, that doesn’t sound like a comedy.

It’s possibly why many people died so young back then; they didn’t have the capacity nor the medicine to fight off bacteria or viruses the way we do now. They also didn’t know about hygiene the way we do now. (I once read a theory that James Garfield probably would have survived his gunshot wound if doctors had just…

That’s what’s scary; these people want to watch the world literally burn so they can have their rapture and spend eternity watching others suffer. Which would make them sadistic scumbags, but then I’m just an evil Jewish atheist who thinks we should take care of ourselves, each other, and the world.

Except most of the developed world isn’t Christian. Or even necessarily believing in any god. And this is a global problem that all of us are failing in. Not just the Americans and their Christian majority.

I had a child in my twenties, youngest is 14 now. Back then it didn’t seem too dire but as I’ve watched it get worse year by year, I feel the need to apologise for the horrors my kids will face as they get older and I am dead.

Christian extremists may be all in favor of the second coming in theory but only in theory. The ones I’ve met, at least, cling tighter to life than just about anyone. Buddhists are waaaaay more “whatever, it’s all cool.”

Yeah, that’s really the core problem I think. We all want to believe that small individual changes can solve the issue, but intelligent government intervention at the systems level would be much faster and more effective.

Having better immune systems than ancient humans is not relevant. The point is that they’re bugs humans haven’t encountered thus no immunity

As a counter point, outbreaks have already occurred and our millennia of disease epidemics are not quite up to snuff with our ability to travel globally, much faster than the incubation period of some of the biggies. We certainly have better supportive therapies and more treatments than in the past, but that doesn’t…

Nah, too many people welcome the apocalypse because they think it means that Ol’ Jesus is coming back and taking them to Heaven, and leaving the heathens to what they deserve. As long as politicians placate the Christian Death Cult they’ll keep getting elected and run the world into the ground.

Did you buy solar panels for your house yet and an electric vehicle? If not, then what will it take? The point is to get people to change the market. A lot of shrugs and oh wells isn’t going to help. Alarmism isn’t ideal, but they are trying to do something to get people to be aware.

This is the same argument I make about spending fortunes to bring back “life” from outer space (especially Mars or Venus). Said life won’t look like Zsa Zsa Gabor in “The Queen of Outer Space” - it would more likely be cryogenically preserved microbes that could trigger pandemics on Earth.

Nah, I think it tends to bring about fatalism in most folks. Or it just gets dismissed - people are still moving to Miami and bidding up the coastal real estate, even though the way things are going the city is almost certainly going to be drowning in 40-50 years (and unlike most other coastal cities, they can’t…

When I read things like this, it makes me feel guilty for bringing a child into the world. My daughter is the greatest joy of my life. But sometimes I think it was selfish to choose to have a child given how dire some of these predictions are — to bring her into a world that might very well become a nightmare within…

We make governments. We enrich corporations.

As long as there is money to be made, most governments and corporations don’t give a fuck, really.