Not at all! I do not want them to die... The doctors put them through all these tests, though, and then tell them nothing can be done as the health conditions of their bodies could not withstand the surgeries... Just makes no sense to me, and I applaud my father-in-law for standing up to them.
The people you’re agreeing with re: healthcare for the elderly don’t make any such distinctions. They view *any* intervention as ‘unnecessary’ and ‘wasteful’. In the UK, NOBODY over the age of 60 receives dialysis unless they pay for it. Because the authorities have stated, forthrightly, that there isn’t any return on the investment in that procedure for people so close to retirement.
Once you view medical care in terms of the states ‘return on investment’ you’ve lost any humanitarian argument.
I am completely in favor of allowing anyone, especially the elderly, to *voluntarily* refuse medical care or tests if they so desire. Refusing to give granny a new hip because she’s over 65 isn’t voluntary. But it’s entirely in our future.
Hope your mom (and mine) has a ‘new hip’ nest egg set aside. In something other than FRN’s. She will probably need it. Along with plane fare to some more civilized country as I look for Ocare to completely outlaw private transactions of that sort. They’d rather get their 55% of grandma’s nestegg when she dies than let her spend it as she sees fit while she’s here.