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Emergency_Document_8 t1_iy5z7s1 wrote

... AND THE ELDERLY?

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LoneWanzerPilot t1_iy6bfrz wrote

Yeah the brutal practicality of people back then.

Here in the east, we once left grandparents on mountains or jungles to die, when there's hard times and the grandparent can't provide any more meaningful labour.

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the--larch t1_iy74wu5 wrote

Now we leave them in “care” facilities.

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BrotherGreed t1_iy76puu wrote

I think that it's interesting that the wiki article refers to it as ritual killing of the elderly. While it probably is part of it, the wording doesn't necessarily strike me as something done purely out of necessity.

Maybe in some areas hard times came and the elderly volunteered to die for the good of their village or whatever, recognizing that they would be a burden and never contribute meaningful labor again, and then it became a sort of expectation/ritual? I'm going to try to dig a little more into it. It's certainly piqued my morbid curiosity.

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FloofyFurryDude t1_iy6basb wrote

Look man they had their time now they need to go, the future is now old man, sniff the flowers

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