Black jack is hired by two children to save their hospitalized mother , but the mother has secretly hired dr. kiriko to euthanize her to relieve her children of the burden of caring for her .
Atlantis caught on to the same dream , but rather than exterminating their citizens in concentration camps , they simply chose to euthanize them in large hospital like complexes utilized mostly for this purpose .
This trend has reached its apotheosis this summer with the republican party claiming en masse that obama wants to set up " death panels " to euthanize the old and disabled .
In new york , erin farrell-talbot recently made the decision to euthanize her 15-year-old cat , buki , when she was told within days of losing her job that he would need thousands of dollars in treatment and medications costing $ 65 a month to live .