"But for the hundreds of millions (if not billions) of dollars that goes to pork in this government, no one's going to tell me it's not worth doing what's noble and re-affirming to humanity. "
100% agreement. Have you looked at all the pork in this year's budget? Several million for the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland? A few million more for the American Preservation of Shrimp? Meanwhile, Pell Grants are being cut?! We're cutting educating our children so that people can learn about entertainers and shrimp can be protected? THIS is what a GOP Congress has given us?! God, you oughta take a look at the total waste pork being dolled out to the big-money contributors in this year's budget. It's truly disgusting.
Yeah - if you could get politicians (R and D, btw) to stop bending over backwards for their contributor-constituents, maybe there'd be money left over for things that matter, such as this.
Question: Since we don't allow these people to be euthanized in America, doesn't that mean we're already subsidizing it?
I guess you're coming at it from an angle of the growing cost of healthcare. In which case, there will be a reckoning across the board, one day. This is why if we give ground on these people today, it will be much easier in the future to go down the pecking line (CP, MS, Lupus, MD, CF) and just "weed" out sufferers in order to relieve the healthcare system in general... It's not a future we want.