Old People...Hurry Up and Die

As health care costs continue to skyrocket...and people continue living longer and longer demanding more and more pills, procedures, tests and treatments, the governments will start to wonder how they can possibly pay for it all?  Of course the INDIVIDUAL can't pay for it all....so they will expect the GOVERNMENT to pay for it all.

One solution (that has been tried in the past) is to tell the old folks to, "Hurry up and die!"

Japan's new government is barely a month old, and already one of its most senior members has insulted tens of millions of voters by suggesting that the elderly are an unnecessary drain on the country's finances.

Taro Aso, the finance minister, said on Monday that the elderly should be allowed to "hurry up and die" to relieve pressure on the state to pay for their medical care.

"Heaven forbid if you are forced to live on when you want to die. I would wake up feeling increasingly bad knowing that [treatment] was all being paid for by the government," he said during a meeting of the national council on social security reforms. "The problem won't be solved unless you let them hurry up and die."

Aso's comments are likely to cause offence in Japan, where almost a quarter of the 128 million population is aged over 60. The proportion is forecast to rise to 40% over the next 50 years.

Here;  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/22/elderly-hurry-up-die-japanese

Ouch!!  40% of population over 60!!  How are the 30% left in the work force (assuming 30% are children) possibly going to support the 40% in, or near, retirement age?

What happens if they find out that a majority of these old folks require an average of $300,000 of medical expenses in the final years of life?

How long can a society cut back on other necessary expenses ONLY to pour all their money into people who are going to die soon anyway??

Good questions.

I guess that's why God told us to "be fruitful" and multiply...because He knew it would take 5 or 6 kids to care for 2 elderly parents.