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I guess UK thinks this is one way of solving their high cost of healthcare -- just kill the old and the sick.
1 posted on 05/08/2006 10:58:37 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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The person who has a say in the aggressiveness of your treatment should be one who would view your death as the worst outcome, other only than your suffering severely without any prospect of recovery and then dying.

In the absence of such a person as that, a decision to limit the aggressiveness of treatment in dire circumstance is inherently morally problematic.


2 posted on 05/08/2006 11:43:36 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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The UK spends half what the average US citizen does on healthcare per head - how can we have a high cost of healthcare?


3 posted on 05/09/2006 3:40:06 AM PDT by Vectorian
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re ;I guess UK thinks this is one way of solving their high cost of healthcare -- just kill the old and the sick.

No we don't,

5 posted on 05/09/2006 7:02:26 AM PDT by tonycavanagh (We got plenty of doomsayers where are the truth sayers)
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