It's not mandatory because the old people who secured for themselves strong families and resources in their lifetime will still live out their life happily. It's just the dregs on society who will die sooner.
If 99% of people can't afford it then 99% of people shouldn't get it. They are going to die, why waste resources on them to delay an inevitability by a length of time that really means nothing in the end.
If you treat your elderly like shit, no one is going to have faith in your system. People will start to notice that going that extra mile, working those extra hours, etc. is pointless since you are still destined to end up being a used up invalid to be discarded as soon as your body is too broken for your labor to be profitable. That doesn't strike me as particularly stable.
There's a difference between treating the elderly with care and giving them expensive treatments to prolong their life well past what it should be just to feed an expensive medical system. In fact, just letting the elderly die can sometimes be a better gift. This idea that we need to prolong life at all costs is terrible. Many previous cultures celebrated an early death if the person's life was worthwhile in their living. The ancient greeks for example often wanted to die in their prime rather than live to old life. Warriors of many cultures wanted to die in battle not live to be old. A change in mindset within the culture might be required. Living while you're old and decrepid with barely any memory in some worthless "home" is a joke existence anyway. Just let them die for their own sake.
It's not mandatory because the old people who secured for themselves strong families and resources in their lifetime will still live out their life happily. It's just the dregs on society who will die sooner.
Probably 99% of their population couldn't afford it. End of life care is insanely expensive.
If 99% of people can't afford it then 99% of people shouldn't get it. They are going to die, why waste resources on them to delay an inevitability by a length of time that really means nothing in the end.
If you treat your elderly like shit, no one is going to have faith in your system. People will start to notice that going that extra mile, working those extra hours, etc. is pointless since you are still destined to end up being a used up invalid to be discarded as soon as your body is too broken for your labor to be profitable. That doesn't strike me as particularly stable.
There's a difference between treating the elderly with care and giving them expensive treatments to prolong their life well past what it should be just to feed an expensive medical system. In fact, just letting the elderly die can sometimes be a better gift. This idea that we need to prolong life at all costs is terrible. Many previous cultures celebrated an early death if the person's life was worthwhile in their living. The ancient greeks for example often wanted to die in their prime rather than live to old life. Warriors of many cultures wanted to die in battle not live to be old. A change in mindset within the culture might be required. Living while you're old and decrepid with barely any memory in some worthless "home" is a joke existence anyway. Just let them die for their own sake.
Everyone is going to die, lol