Huang Weiman: Happy aging?

Japan's experience tells us that simply measuring a society contributed by the elderly with productivity, it is more likely to make the society conflict and even become more cruel.The fundamental problem of aging society is to a large extent the constraints of thought. When the elderly feel that they are troublesome to others, and young people think that older people are burdens, that is the real tragedy.

The problem of aging of Japanese population and declining childization is getting worse, and it seems to be forcing this society to face and discuss many difficult issues.In addition to thinking about how to better take care of people into the twilight years, it was recently discovered very unexpectedly that another wave of thought has emerged in Japan: Many people are brewing a society that imagines the elderly.

Facing the aging aging, Japan has always been ahead; the tensions and contradictions between the intergenerational intergenerational intergenerational intergenerational also provide some important experiences and revelations in many countries that face the same problems in Asia.In the middle of last year, in the Cannes Film Festival, the Film 75 Final Plan (Plan 75), which won the Special Nomination Award, Japanese director Toricho Takawa Chiyu directly touched this seemingly contraindicated topic: if the government supports a project with euthanasia over 75 years oldWhat reaction will cause?

It is illegal to die in Japan.However, in some media interviews accepted by Torikawa Kawakawa, she pointed out that in the past, a young man in the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan killed the sleeping old man in the center of the disabled.At that time, the criminals claimed that these people should have the right to "euthanasia" because they were "extremely difficult for home life or participating in social activities."

Takawa Chuanqian believes that the terrible problems thrown in the movie have been discussed in Japanese society.Because I was worried that Japan would become a "extremely unable tolerant society", she imagined a situation that allowed euthanasia institutionalized in the movie to explore whether the country and the entire society participated in the "how the old man's life end", whether it will be derived from another other.A violence that is not related to the massacre?

Coincidentally, the New York Times interviewed a remark often in public this month, advocating the "collective commitment to committing suicide" for the elderly to show the "spirit of the samurai" and let Japan's strong Yale University Professor Cheng Tian Yufu.The interview seemed to give the professor who feels that he was interrupted by the media to explain a chance, but because the subject was very controversial, the report still caused readers to be uproar. Many people were surprised by this "hatred" phenomenon in Japan.

Japanese Prime Minister Kishita Nada recently issued a warning that Japan is on the edge of whether it can continue to operate as a society.

Today, many countries around the world are facing the "cold winter". Some countries have tried to turn the tide, but the effect is limited.China's official report recently showed that China's total population has decreased by 850,000 year -on -year, which is the first negative population growth since the "three years of famine".This not only means that China's population situation comes to a historical inflection point, but also to a certain extent reflects the increasingly expanding population gap between young Asian countries and fast aging countries.

In fundamental perspective, social aging is a problem, mainly because when the population structure of a country becomes more and more heavy, the cost of taking care of the younger generation to take care of the elderly will increase.This involves a layer of problems, such as whether the pension guarantee system is complete, the update of urban design, and the construction of medical care facilities, etc., also involve the economic pressure caused by labor shortage.

However, as the world realizes the reality that the population structure of many countries is over, some scholars can also try to think about aging from different angles.Instead of regarding aging as a question that needs to be solved, can the world be to meet and adapt to this new phenomenon with a more positive and optimistic attitude?

First of all, many countries still use the 19th -century vision to look at how a society should organize labor teams, that is, imagine that there must be many young and powerful young people to work.However, with the progress of science and technology and the employment liquidity brought about by globalization, the redesign and adjustment of job positions, and the improvement of immigration policy expansion, which will largely help a society meet its human needs.

In addition, from the perspective of solving the climate crisis, it may now be the best time for us to talk about population problems in the context of environmental protection.Although the less the country's population, the more carbon consumption and emissions, and the destruction of nature will be reduced, and it is necessary to get more fully inspected, but it is an imminent climate problem.Instead, you can measure the new method of "good life".

Japan's experience tells us that simply measuring a society contributed by the elderly with productivity, it is more likely to make the society conflict and even become more cruel.

Last month, Singapore updated a number of measures under the Action Plan for Successful Ageing, which allowed people to imagine the role that elderly players played in different roles in society.The elder with wisdom in the family can be a role model for young people, helping parenting and breeding, reducing the burden of this aspect; elderly people can actively invest in community services and become volunteers; they can also be gardens in the housing area, healthy health, healthy health, and healthy health.Ambassador of life and so on.

Even the elderly who are frail and sick can be used to a certain extent.They can teach a society how to take care of the disadvantaged groups, treat the old, sick and dead in a dignified way, and give this social thought and mentality more mature.

This experiment that does not define "old age" from a narrow perspective may be more significant in Asia.The fundamental problem of aging society is to a large extent the constraints of thought. When the elderly feel that they are troublesome to others, and young people think that older people are burdens, that is the real tragedy.