This whole topic seems to be some medical community bash-ensemble. Referring to the lack of sufficient care the elderly receive in nursing homes in the netherlands, this is not a consequence of slacking off by the medical staff but of the huge shortage of people willing to work in homes. It's very simple; the babyboom generation is coming into the realm of geriatrics and with that comes an increased workload for the generations that came later. In 15 years most of the babyboomers will be over 70, meaning the shit will hit the fan sometime soon. Secondly, euthanasia isnt something you just hand out when people get to a certain cut-off age. It's a way to end extreme suffering and it'll be hard to find a situation in the Netherlands, where euthanasia was applied, in which this wasn't the case. When someone has a long future of agonizing, debilitating pain ahead of him/her and all possible forms of palliative care have been applied in the disease progress it is a justifiable choice.