'Freiwilliger Abschied'? Die Imagination des Gerontozids als Verhandlung der Lebensdauer in der Moderne

'The apprehension of a forthcoming 'obligation to die' which is currently articulated in various occasions is not only a reaction upon the debates within health care policy on rationing and the discourse on euthanasia. It also refers to a hard to define cultural condition which currently seems to justify the possibility to decide about the end of one's own life. Hence, the article analyses the con…