Japanese minister prays the elderly to die.

New Minister of Finance in Japan is located in the center of a national scandal, when asked the elderly to "die quickly" to help the country to regulate its financial balances.Taro Aso made this outrageous statement during a discussion on ways of coping with Japan's demographic crisis, with the population that continues to be reduced and life expectancy increases.Aso also criticized the country's health service, which he holds to be very old, without artificial aid will change lives."No need to maintain by force someone who wants to die," said Aso. "Seniors need to rush to die. I would feel very bad if I was at a certain age and I knew that I was holding in life thanks to the State money. This problem would be solved if the elderly who are no longer able to live without assistance be allowed to die. "Taros statement, not only sparked a national outcry, but falls deeply in conflict with Japanese culture deep veneration of the elderly.A few hours after this statement, in the face of calls for his resignation, 72-year-old Taro apologized, trying to explain better. "I said what I think personally, not what I think should be our health system. However, I believe it is important for anyone to spend his last days in peace, and it seems pointless to many people, practically dead, kept alive artificially, burdening the state with an increasingly unbearable financial cost " .Minister's statement followed the recent census results, which showed the largest decline in the number of population in decades. Currently, over 20% of Japan's population of 128 million, the second highest life expectancy in the world, has passed the age of 65.In the next 50 years, it is expected that the number of people over 65 years equates to it under this age, as life expectancy continues to grow, facing a demographic crisis caused by very low fertility.