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I think that within a family it would be a way rarer problem. I'm open to being contradicted, but I believe it's a pretty universal cultural norm for younger ge

I think that within a family it would be a way rarer problem. I'm open to being contradicted, but I believe it's a pretty universal cultural norm for younger generations to take care of older family members when they need it, at least until very recently. Coerced (even lightly coerced) euthanasia is a feature I associate more with a welfare state, where the state doesn't have enough money to pay to care for everyone, so incentives begin to creep in to convince them to end their lives when the can't be cared for properly by the state. See the Canada example posted in a sibling comment.

xorbax 3y ago
Not like a welfareless state, where you're lucky to be in a class that gets you that far
ChainOfFools 3y ago
> universal cultural norm for younger generations to take care of older family members when they need it, OP is talking about how the normalization of euthanasia could find snoballing support derived from all sorts of social and economic pressures on the younger generations to reduce the cost burden of the older ones. With the result that once some tipping point has been reached this option becomes an expectation and the cultural norm has changed. > at least until very recently. this acknowledgement rather supports his point, long held cultural norms are far more brittle than we think they are. And the old and weak have no economic muscle to defend themselves against this change.