***Now if they were killing viable and treatable patients strictly on the basis of age, then there would be legs to this story.***
Thirty years ago it broke in the news that elderly people were TERRIFIED to call on a doctor as it was found the doctors were killing the patients because THE DOCTOR decided the patient had no quality of life left. It did not matter how the patient felt about their quality of life.
I failed to mention this was in the Netherlands.