The elderly are now drugged to a catatonic state where their fragile bodies go into shut down.
Without the yoke of Christianity, mankind with no concern for human life will be homicidal and suicidal.
Funny how mankind made it for so long without Christianity if it is necessarily homicidal and suicidal by nature. Could it be that men are homicidal and suicidal by nature, but mankind as a whole has gotten through that?
Besides, it was hundreds of years before Christianity changed from being okay with suicide into banning it. Early Christians committed suicide or sought martyrdom to be with their Lord. It wasn't until the Council of Braga (c. 561-563) that it was banned. (This pronouncement was along with other such enlightenments as excommunicating priests who wouldn't eat their vegetables in meat broth.)