Very true. We need to go back to letting people die when their time is naturally up. We've got armies of unionized workers, largely paid with tax dollars, artificially keeping people "alive" for years after they've ceased to have any idea who or where they are, or what century it is, or who their occasional visitors are.
The worst thing is, there is literally no way to opt out of this. You can indicate in an advance medical directive that you don't want to be tube-fed, or put on a ventilator, or resuscitated if your heart stops, and these wishes might be respected (unless a distraught relative suddenly claims you told them you'd changed your mind about that last week).
But if your mind is totally completely gone, and you can't move yourself in bed enough to prevent bedsores, and you try to push the spoon away when somebody insists on feeding you 3 times a day, you will still be kept alive. The person assigned to spoon-feed you will keep shoving the food into your mouth, and (usually) remembering to turn you a few times a day to prevent bedsores, and (usually) changing your diapers fairly regularly, and this can go on for years. The fact that you would rather have all the money this costs go to your children or to your favorite charity or just stay in the public treasury is beside the point.
We've got armies of unionized workers, largely paid with tax dollars, artificially keeping people "alive" for years after they've ceased to have any idea who or where they are, or what century it is, or who their occasional visitors are.
Yeah, its a problem. People used to die in their houses. With dignity. Its a business keeping people alive.
Very true. We need to go back to letting people die when their time is naturally up. We've got armies of unionized workers, largely paid with tax dollars, artificially keeping people "alive" for years after they've ceased to have any idea who or where they are, or what century it is, or who their occasional visitors are.
The worst thing is, there is literally no way to opt out of this. You can indicate in an advance medical directive that you don't want to be tube-fed, or put on a ventilator, or resuscitated if your heart stops, and these wishes might be respected (unless a distraught relative suddenly claims you told them you'd changed your mind about that last week).
But if your mind is totally completely gone, and you can't move yourself in bed enough to prevent bedsores, and you try to push the spoon away when somebody insists on feeding you 3 times a day, you will still be kept alive. The person assigned to spoon-feed you will keep shoving the food into your mouth, and (usually) remembering to turn you a few times a day to prevent bedsores, and (usually) changing your diapers fairly regularly, and this can go on for years. The fact that you would rather have all the money this costs go to your children or to your favorite charity or just stay in the public treasury is beside the point.
Yeah, we call it the Biden campaign.