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I am 70 years old. My mother lived to be 97, and I do not wish to endure that indignity. Please do not inflict any heroic procedures that will keep me alive for 27 more years. If I do not die spontaneously before that time, please do not place me under a 24-hour suicide watch. You can use your money for better purposes than keeping my monitors blinking.
Everyone is entitled to a chance at life even if just for one more day. That's for the person and their loved ones to decide. Not some impersonal, calloused outsider.
Hitler definitely ahead of his time. He could have been so useful today, a chief health "czar" even. Or could it be the socialism headed our way is simply cave dweller barbarism, swaddled neatly into 1900 senseless words. In other words, it is nobody else's damn business which elder dies or lives, except for said elder and his/her family members.
Alexus and lilypad, why do you have to mess up the good posts with your redundancy? We already know you hate Obama, democrats and socialism. You don't need to tell every one in every post you come across.
Alexus and lilypad, why do you have to mess up the good posts with your redundancy? We already know you hate Obama, democrats and socialism. You don't need to tell every one in every post you come across.
Say something new, or shut up.
Well, hello there again, december. You gettin' around tonight? What did you do with them apples?
I am just curious to get everyone's thoughts on a touchy subject I suppose. When do we learn to let go with out elderly?
I work at a heart monitoring company and I walk them through how to use it and get everything set up and activated, etc. There are so many people, that IMO, whom do not need to be on this. It's just, there's sooooo much Medicare being wasted on pickling these people to live another day.
There are times I call someone..and they are 95..and living in a nursing home. What's the point? Why does it matter to "have this person live a little bit longer?"..when there are people whom DO have more time and deserve it more.
I've had someone who was 99 and was on the monitor to determine if they needed a ****in pacemaker!! What's the POINT?!!
Here are my thoughts: It's not so much about age. It's about..their overall health. There are times I speak with someone who is like 94 and they are alive and kicking it! They are with it. They are ALL there. They are capable of helping themselves... so shouldn't money be spent more on THOSE people who may have another 10 years left rather than letting someone live for another year---even though they are practically in a coma 24/7?!
Would you ask for the same treatment to be allocated onto your mother or father...............?
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