Well it certainly isn't the Government's decision.
Personally if I follow your logic I would recommend that you self terminate before you start using up resources. In fact the UN has already proposed that.
If you don't want to take care of your parents then take Alinsky's advice, kill them.
Welcome to the New World Order, where your rights come from a committee and are subject to change.
Perhaps you should read the original article.
No one was proposing that Mrs. Walker was going to be euthanized or starved.
Mrs. Walker's kids were bitching because they were being asked to pay for her nursing home stay.
What they wanted was for the Government to pay for it so they wouldn't have to.
Anyone who wanted to take care of their parents wouldn't run whining to the Government.
I work in health care and I see plenty of this all the time....people with resources of their own who connive and lie to get their care on the taxpayer's dime, and then whine like babies when they are denied or caught. They can go pound sand as far as I am concerned.