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I'm glad to see that for once I actually agree with the general community here.
No, the Elderly do not have a duty to die.
That is totally absurd. Now the question that seems more relevant is do we as a community have a duty to care for the ones that have not planned to take care of themselves. Normally I would say No, we don't but there's a factor that makes this oh so complicated: Social Security.
Social Security is a horrible pyramid scheme not only set up by the government, but also forced upon everyone weather they like it or not, and also weather they saw thru it or not. Most of the resentment of the elderly probably flows from the huge amount of Social Security money that's being taken from the population and given to them. But the real issue is that they had the same crap pulled on them. Further, It was carefully explained to them that because of Social Security they wouldn't need to save for their retirement, it was being done for them.
We as a society got them into this pickle, so it is possible that its our responsibility to get them out. I don't know, its a hard question for me to answer. Its also worth observing that more people are older now by both numbers and percentage than ever before. It may not even be a question of "should we take care of our elderly" but "can we take care of our elderly"
No matter how you cut it though, offing them for financial reasons is pretty immoral.
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