How many old people can the world support?

[JimC]

That's what I don't get. It's OK to abort a fetus on the grounds it cannot look after itself, cannot survive alone and yet dementia which makes you into a empty brain dead husk, a biological photograph of what once was, is considered sacrosanct.

In the U.S. the next of kin can ask for life support to be disconnected.

They are emotionaly compromised. The technical decision should be left to a objective personage like the hospital doctor who knows when brain degeneration is irreversible, terminal and total.

Possibly, if the person concerned has earlier signed a consent form...