If population shrinks and the past accumulates, we're going to be in big trouble. The only reason to pay attention to the wishes of the dead is that the living will have more confidence their wishes will be respected. If I try to think today which government in the world is most utilitarian, not globally, not for animals, but just for its own citizens, I would tend to think that Singapore.

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