Senicide
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Senicide, also known as geronticide or gerontocide, is the practice of killing the elderly. This killing of the elderly can be characterized by both active and passive methods as senio-euthanasia or a
Scene depicting the legend of ubasute, in which an elderly woman is abandoned on a mountain in Sarashina, Japan
Ättestupa
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Ättestupa is a name given to a number of precipices in Sweden.
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…in common Goryeo-era stone tombs, with the characteristic small rice pot found by "pot hunters" as evidence of that practice. In Swedish folklore, the ättestupa is a cliff where elderly people were said to leap, or be thrown, to death. While the trope has survived as an urban legend, and a metaphor for deficient…
Ättestupa in Västergötland as depicted by Willem Swidde in Erik Dahlbergh, Suecia antiqua et hodierna (1705)