Hey, with de-institutionalization and the poor state of affairs in most state funded and conrtolled mental hospiatls in the USA, we have a horror story going on on a daily basis. Couple that with the stigma that those of ruling class have place on mental illness, the US has nothing to brag about and claim to have a higher ground than what other governments have done in the past. Speaking as a former social worker in adult services, I have seen OUR inhumanity close up. And it stinks... No, we don't off these folks. We just dump them into a world in which they don't have a clue until they off themselves...