Japanese deputy prime minister Aso Taro hopes old and sick people will 'hurry up and die'

Japanese deputy prime minister Aso Taro wishes that old and sick people would "hurry up and die." The verbal-blunder-prone minister recently attended a meeting, and when addressing the issue of elders care, was quoted as calling hospice patients "tubed people", adding that they are a drain on the nation's medical system. The 72-year-old allegedly commented, "I would wake up feeling increasingly bad knowing that [treatment] was all being paid for by the government," and "The problem won't be solved unless you let them hurry up and die."

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