
A healthy woman has ended her life at a suicide clinic in Switzerland rather than face old age. A palliative care nurse during her working life, she had previously said that she thought old people were “a burden on society”
by Donna Rachel Edmunds3 Aug 2015, 6:55 AM PST0

An elderly, blind man’s decapitated body was found just after noon on Thursday in his Inglewood, California home, a woman identifying herself as his cousin said.
by Michelle Moons19 Jun 2015, 3:35 PM PST0

In his weekly “general audience” Wednesday, Pope Francis once again employed forceful language in addressing the issue of the elderly in society, saying that the quality of a civilization is shown by the way it treats its older members. Many modern societies make no room for the elderly, he said, and carry in themselves “the virus of death.”
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.4 Mar 2015, 6:25 AM PST0

Police arrested one of two women who engaged in a fight using their walkers as weapons. Eventually, one had fallen and couldn’t get up, and the other was charged with a felony.
by Warner Todd Huston26 Dec 2014, 9:00 PM PST0