August 18, 2009
Must Read: Futile" healthcare is in the eye of the beholder, and should be in the hands of the patient.
I just got this article, and suggest you all read it. "When people discuss "end-of-life care," they often invoke scenarios meant to sound ominous: tubes, breathing machines, physical dependency. I'm not scared by those images, having lived for 46 years with increasing reliance on technological and human support. A ventilator aids my breathing. Personal care assistants bathe, dress, and feed me. I operate my wheelchair by blowing into a tube. And my life is far from over. Of course, none of us can know for sure, but I plan on being around for a while.""That plan has not always gone unquestioned. Tactless acquaintances have told me they would kill themselves if they became as disabled as me. More chillingly, the last time I was hospitalized for pneumonia, I had two different nurses ask if I had a DNR—a "do not resuscitate" order. I replied that I had come to the hospital to get better, not to die."
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Steyn:
http://tinyurl.com/qsyk5j
We need T-shirts:
http://tinyurl.com/o486ur
Obamacare proponents don't really care about lowering costs, it's all about soaking the rich and making them pay.
What these clowns don't take into consideration is that once everything became more-or-less stable, there would be no recourse to government-provided decisions. You can't fight city hall.
LC LaWedgie
There is a so-called ethicist (at Yale I believe) by the name of Peter Singer. He's really big on defining 'quality of life' in terms of mental/physical capability and using it to allocate social resources.
He is, quite frankly, a pig
grayp
grayp-he's a vile bastard-a real eugenist who loathes disabled people. He's damned lucky I never ran into him in Toronto
LC-Steyn is right, it's liberty over your own body-that is the issue.
liberty over your own body indeed. Where are all the pro-choice people?
grayp
Good question.
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