Jacques Attali A Brief History of the Future 1981

Attali explains his point of view on how society can cope with life expectancy. He says: "Therefore, I believe that the logic of industrial society is not to extend life expectancy, but to ensure that people live as well as possible within a certain life expectancy, but in this way that healthcare costs are as low as possible. "

Attali, however, in no way calls for the euthanasia of the elderly or the sick.

In the book, he concludes: "In any case, euthanasia will be one of the main tools of future societies. In socialist logic, the problem is originally as follows: Socialist logic is freedom, and fundamental freedom is suicide; therefore the right to direct or indirect suicide. is an absolute value for this type of society. "

He added that he thought the logic of capitalist societies was: "In a capitalist society, machines or prostheses that kill when life becomes unbearably hard or expensive will appear and become popular. That is why I believe that euthanasia, whether it is value of freedom or a commodity will become the rule for future societies. "