Thalaikoothal (a practice described as hastening the death of elderly or terminally ill relatives) is still practiced in parts of Tamil Nadu, India.
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The Short Version
Available evidence supports that thalaikoothal has not disappeared entirely from Tamil Nadu. Recent peer-reviewed and academic sources describe it as continuing covertly in some rural districts, even if it is difficult to document openly. The evidence is much stronger for ongoing occurrence than for how common it is.
Caveats
Current prevalence cannot be measured reliably because the practice is described as covert and underreported.
Several later articles appear to repeat earlier reports, so source independence is stronger for existence than for scale.
The term can be used broadly in discussions of elder killing or end-of-life abuse; not every cited case is equally well documented as the specific traditional practice.