After more than fifteen hundred years, Japanese culture is on the verge of extinction. There are not enough children. And similar fates may be in store for France, Italy, and elsewhere. These nations and others are on the brink of a demographic implosion with far-reaching economic implications —and they know it! There are simply not enough babies being born to maintain their economies.

But something else is happening as well. The aging population for these nations is becoming increasingly top heavy. Now the younger generation—which was taught principles of selfishness and anti-family ethics by the older generation—is beginning to make the type of “practical” decisions which are necessary to survive. Sometimes it means just letting the elderly die.

This article describes the trend through the story of one man who died after being rejected for admission at 14 hospitals. Another woman in her 70s with a respiratory need was rejected by 49 hospitals. Why the rejections? There are just “too many elderly patients already clogging up” the hospitals.