[Secret Agent Man]

No offense but I don’t want any doc treating me that has already made up his mind I’m not going to live beyond “x” amount of time. Guy’s already got that in his head I’m not going to make it and quite frankly that doc may have already determined what they won’t do for me to beat the odds. Because it may go beyond what I should rate for care, they could get penalized for doing more than what they’re told is acceptable for a person my age.

Screw this. This world is not going to be running this way much longer.

[Wallop the Cat]

Dude, you are going to die. It baffles me to no end when I consider to what lengths we all go to in order to avoid thinking about that singular fact, but it is inescapable. Do you - does anybody - believe that as a society we should spare no expense prolonging every single life to the absolute end? That is as unsustainable economically speaking, as is the current federal budget. I am not advocating euthanasia, but on the other hand I am not willing to pay to keep myself or you alive for a few extra days or weeks at the tail end of our lives when that cost is overwhelming the medical and insurance (including Medicare) systems already.

[MondoQueen]

When my husband was diagnosed with cancer, the doctors told me he had only months to live. Well, that scared me, since I had four children, the youngest of whom was only one year old. These were doctors from a well-known university medical school. Well, he lasted nine years, in comparatively good health. So much for the scare tactics. Needless to say, we found another doctor.

[trisham]

No offense but I don’t want any doc treating me that has already made up his mind I’m not going to live beyond “x” amount of time. Guy’s already got that in his head I’m not going to make it and quite frankly that doc may have already determined what they won’t do for me to beat the odds. Because it may go beyond what I should rate for care, they could get penalized for doing more than what they’re told is acceptable for a person my age.

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I could not agree more. It's beginning to seem that the medical profession may become as much a threat to our health as disease.