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Dealing with the elderly is an embarrassing social dilemma. Younger folks, who can't emotionally handle the reality that they'll someday be in that condition themselves, are desperate to salve their consciences by passing their parents off to third parties: rest homes, etc. Their consciences are assuaged because they've "done something."

Earlier cultures dealt with the problem more mercifully IMO. When the time came it was part of the social contract in many societies to leave old folks alone in the wilderness to die with dignity of exposure, starvation and thirst -- a much kinder and quicker fate than being left to the not-so-tender mercies of minimum-wage airheads who entertain themselves by placing bets on which of their charges will wet or soil themselves first.

I'm reaching that time of life. Thank God I haven't given all my guns away!