Senicide
Senizid to German old killing , is a term for the old culture derived killing people. The killing can be active or passive, for example by not continuing necessary care, nutrition or other life-sustaining measures. Anthropologists and historians have provided reports of the killing of the elderly in many cultures around the world, such as Eskimos , Indian cultures in North America or indigenous cultures in North Asia. At the same time, since there is little evidence of these supposed killings, it has been suggested that most of these reports are chilling myths about supposedly cruel practices by alien races or times past that emphasize the superiority of the norm of prohibiting any human being from killing.
literature
- Raimund Pousset: Senicide and Old Age Killing - An Overdue Discourse. Springer Fachmedien, ISBN 9783658208776
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul B. Baltes, Jürgen Mittelstraß, Ursula M. Staudinger: Age and Aging: An interdisciplinary study text on gerontology. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2018, ISBN 978-3110144086
- ↑ Felix E. Müller: The killing of the elderly: Did that exist? Ed .: NZZ am Sonntag. April 19, 2020, p. 35 .