Posted on 06/06/2005 10:37:37 AM PDT by eartotheground
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What's next, roving hospital death squads? If you have a euthanasia bar code tatooed on your back, you get a discount on your insurance premium!
Nothing personal. Business is business.
I suspected that the sc*mbag insurance companies were behind the scences orchestrating the death culture big time (along with government Medicare/Medicaid bureaucrats). And sure enough, here it is.
So what, they offer their customers information. This in no way means they advocate euthanasia. Your post makes you look like a loony.
Do you disagree with a terminally ill person making his or her own end-of-life decisions? Would you rather Big Brother intervene, regardless of the will of the patient or the closest family member?
I see nothing here that seems controversial or advocating a bandwagon or a death squad as one of our less enlightened friends here posted.
That's nothing - MetLife even offers a recipe for Soylent Green on their website.
"End of life care." Right! People need to suffer through the end of their lives as God intended them to.
Again....this is following the model presented in the movie "Soilent(soylent?)Green" with Charlton Heston in the staring role. Where one, if they chose, at any age apparently, could go to the death house and be euthanized (voluntary suicide). Although the details were lacking in the movie, it was understood that it was a govt sanctioned and funded program.........
Yeah, it will save them medical costs.
Investors will love it too. More return for their money instead of spending on a person who is ill.
Sickening.
Wonder how this happened?
Recipe for soilent green??? I thought it was people???!!!
"Recipe for soilent green??? I thought it was people???!!!"
It is, but you don't just take a chomp out of someone's arm and call it "soylent green." You gotta prepare it the right way- presumably including green food coloring.
I would think today's Supreme Court decision would allow congress to outlaw assisted suicide now in effect in Oregon.
I think certainly that insurance companies and the gov't are involved. Euthanizing people is a tricky issue though. Usually, its what medicare will pay for that causes insurance companies to decide what they are going to pay. To avoid a perception of the gov't looking too nazi like, the insurance companies are taking the lead on this one. Call me a mad tin-foil hatter, but I think there is a concerted plan already in action for acceptance of euthanasia as part of the future of health care, you betcha.
The keyword there is "terminally ill". All of us are terminally ill - just which illness gets us.
And, some of us are not even dying until the "state" makes the decision it is time for us to go.
If the insurance companies are involved with promoting euthanasia, there will be many that will seek other insurance companies. If the hospitals kill the elderly when they innocently enter the doors of the hospital for help, the elderly will not go to doctors because of fear.
You say people should plan their end of life wishes. But, after a case like Terri Schiavo where the family wishes were ignored and she was killed, the elderly, the deformed, the bedridden will now die without the feeling of loving relatives surrounding them, but the fear that those standing around them are really killing them.
Why would any wish such on any of those that brought us into the world.
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