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To: Graybeard58

I see a lot wrong, when the state interferes with patients choices as to when to die. If someone would rather leave the family home to the next generation, and die a few months earlier via assisted suicide, tough. The government says you have to stay alive whether you want to or not, and it will decide what medical care you must receive at a minimum, and it will hire unionized healthcare workers to deliver the care you don't want, and then it will take your family home after you die on the grounds that "you owe the government". 50% of our nation's colossal health care tab is spent on the last 6 months of life, in many cases on patients who are so demented that they don't even know who they are. It's absolutely insane, and refusal to face the real costs can't continue indefinitely.


87 posted on 10/23/2006 11:37:32 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker
If someone would rather leave the family home to the next generation, and die a few months earlier via assisted suicide, tough. The government says you have to stay alive whether you want to or not, and it will decide what medical care you must receive at a minimum, and it will hire unionized healthcare workers to deliver the care you don't want, and then it will take your family home after you die on the grounds that "you owe the government".

All can be avoided by caring for our own parents rather than foisting them off on others . . . .

113 posted on 10/23/2006 12:07:58 PM PDT by WIladyconservative
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