[DangitBobby]

This has never made sense to me. I'd be interested to know if there are numbers to back it up. You still have your most expensive years (the ones that come before death), they just come much sooner and are much more likely to involve expensive debilitating disease. In any case, the expense of old age mostly comes from pills and surgery which are artificially expensive due to our shit healthcare system. And I doubt we accurately measure the economic benefit of having the elderly around to help with young families, provide wisdom and experience, etc.