A large number of people living for many years with sharply reduced physical and mental capacity, retaining theoretical "autonomy", and mostly cared for by the

A large number of people living for many years with sharply reduced physical and mental capacity, retaining theoretical "autonomy", and mostly cared for by the medical-care-industrial-complex as opposed to family and community - all this is an accidental abomination created by modern medicine and economics. As a society and species this is new to us, and I doubt we will ever figure out a way to treat such a class of people humanely. It's just too big a challenge.