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    9 months ago

    This was the common “retirement” for peasants living under heavy serfdom. They faced hunger every year so the old people unable to work “went to forest for firewood” or “go to hunt” to die there with some dignity and remove the excess mouth. A lot of time this was forced, and it happened not only to old people but to disabled, women and children, especially in worse years.