Fertility, mortality, migration, and population scenarios for 195 countries and territories from 2017 to 2100

Read more. The English novelist P.D. James wrote a dystopian novel in 1992 entitled The Children of Men. Set in the year 2021, the novel describes a world where all human males have become sterile, and children have disappeared. As the last generation turns age 25, societies give way to strange beliefs, unspeakable cruelties, systematic euthanasia, and hopelessness. According…

Vida «completada» en los Países Bajos

En enero de 2020 se presentó un informe (de la «Comisión van Wijngaarden») que concluyó que aprox. El 1.8% de todas las personas de 55 años en adelante, desean terminar con sus vidas, sin estar enfermos. No sufren insoportable y desesperadamente, pero consideran que sus vidas son «completas». Los investigadores señalaron que el deseo de…

‘Completed’ life in the Netherlands

In January 2020 a report (by ‘Commission van Wijngaarden’) was presented which concluded that approx. 1.8 % of all persons of 55 years and up, have a wish to end their lives, without being ill. They do not suffer unbearably and hopelessly, but consider their lives to be «complete». The researchers noted that the death…