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Is cannibalism the future?

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New Delhi, August 28, 2023

Baat Nikli Hai to, Dur Talak Jayegi

Amitabh Srivastava

Rajya Sabha member and famous actor Jaya Bachchan touched the raw nerve of the booming population of senior citizens of the country with her cryptic note which is being widely shared on social media.

She said that senior citizens above 65 were not getting normal services like Medical Insurance, and DL, The Railway concession had also been withdrawn and they were completely left out of the system. While many other countries value experience here in our beloved Bharat Mata the seniors are not offered jobs because of their advances and are forced to live and die as dependents on their children as pensions are only reserved for politicians now.

But the issue is not confined to mere pensions now. In many parts of the world senior citizens are being subjected to suicide which means that younger people are encouraged to kill the senior citizens because they have become parasites.

A few months back a Yale professor Yusuke Narita asked the Japanese seniors to commit Harakiri or become more open to Euthanasia.

A little research on the subject showed that Senicide is a phenomenon prevalent in huge numbers in many countries and civilisations.

Among the countries or tribes this practice is prevalent in various manifestations are Heruli (Germany), Inuit (Elders left to die on ice) ,Korea (those above 70 left in a cave with a pot of rice), Scandinavia (thrown to death from a mountain),Rome, Serbia etc.

In India Tamil Nadu leads the way with a custom called ‘Thalaikoothal’ where the elderly or sick are given a dignified death and this progrom is organized many times in an year.

The dilemma before the elderly today is that with better health facilities and awareness the life span of the useless and jobless elderly has been increasing, changing the demographic profile of the population across the world.

Monaco has 65 per cent seniors, Japan has 29 per cent while Italy comes at number 3 with 24 per cent among the top three countries in the world with maximum senior citizens.

World’s economists had been predicting since a long time that India with its burgeoning youth population with purchasing capacity would become the topmost economy of the world in the near future since China’s population is at standstill despite incentives to produce children even outside marriage.

However, what brought matters to a head was the pandemic which ruined all the plans and forecasts. Revolts against the elderly seen as impediments in the way of the youth are coming out in its ugliest form.

Only a few months thousands of youths had come out on the streets in France after the government increased the age of retirement from 62 to 64.

A Japanese Oscar nominated film Plan 75 made in 2022 by first time director Chie Hayakawa predicted a future where the elderly would be left to die on mountain tops because their expiry date was over.

A film made in India Sherdil: the Pilibhit Saga starring Pankaj Tripathi in 2022 is based on an incident widely reported in newspapers about incidents in Pilibhit Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh, where forest officers were shocked to find skeletons and bones of old people eaten up by tigers in the Jungle.

The villagers admitted that they were leaving their elders in the forest because when they showed their bones to the government, they were offered huge compensation.

In 1729, noted Humorist Jonathan Swift had suggested cannibalism as a solution to the pr0blem of Ireland kids from becoming “a burden on their parents or country for making them beneficial to the publick” in ‘A Modset proposal’ it was taken as a joke.

No more. If such incidents are reported in newspapers they would be dismissed as normal items in a news bulletin.

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