[Marie]

OK. Come on over to my house. Meet my son. He's 15 years old. Got an IQ of 145. He loves animals, has a great sense of humor and wants to be a volunteer firefighter. He can shoot, build traps from scratch and is currently nursing a tomato plant. He loves G-d, passionately argues politics with his grandfather and is very much looking forward to being a husband and father. He's used his humor to overcome more hell than most people will ever know. His motto is, "Where there's breath, there's hope." He's counseled a grown woman out of suicide with that humor and compassion.

You tell him that he's "life not fit for life" because G-d saw fit to "tweak" his immune system.

If people *choose* to give their lives to save another, that's fine. But it's IMMORAL to allow someone to die just because they're weak or disabled.

Sorry that I can't be "rational" about my only son being put on a eugenics culling list.

(My daughter might make it. Her problem is correctable with surgery. How *grateful* I should be that "they" might give her a chance to continue breathing. /s)

And YES, I believed that life is precious and worth fighting for *before* my son was diagnosed. "Compassionate" Conservatives, my ass!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I am sorry that you have this position, since modified versions of this triage process are used every day in every ER in the world. In these non-emergency times those in the greatest and most immediate need of medical attention go to the head of the line. In the case of an emergency involving a great shortage of medical resources, the triage procedure always has and always will operate the way discussed in this article. Those who do not like it are free to start their own hospital.