Sarah Harte: We cannot allow assisted suicide debate to devalue older people

Old age is not a disease and we shouldn't treat it as one

Ageism is probably the last acceptable form of discrimination that remains unchallenged in society, with older people often unfairly stigmatised.

Last week, a Yale professor was under attack for suggesting the mass suicide of elderly Japanese might solve some of Japan’s problems.

During the course of an interview in 2021, Dr Yusuke Narita (37) had said: “I feel like the only solution is pretty clear.”