 Five times more older people died in 2017 than children, and that's been the case in any given year for a while now. Yet, while 5.3 million dead children in a single year is a huge tragedy that rarely makes the headlines, 27.7 million dead elderly in a single year is what? Oh, it's just the circle of life, the natural order of things, and it never makes the headlines because we don't see it as a tragedy. We don't think it's even worth mentioning. At best, we see it as a way out of population growth. It's a crystal clear sign that our society sees older people as second-class lives that don't matter as much as younger lives, and I really don't think we should see it that way, let alone if we are talking about ethics.