[vox_freedom]

I'm guessing that insurance companies would pay parents to allow the disabled to die. They just haven't had the societal cover to step forward yet with their offers of blood money.

I've heard the last six months of health care are the most expensive, averaging $200,000 -- though this could be an inaccurate #. Suffice it to say, there is a very real financial incentive to shorten that period of time, by insurance carriers and sometimes family members who would rather have the loot than the old coot. No wonder there is a push on to "allow" euthanasia for the old and infirm. Tragic and despicable are two terms for those who would kill innocent babies in the womb and the helpless elderly.

[Maigrey]

It's ironic, but I was having a similar discussion with my mother this morning, and she said she wouldn't want to be on tubes or anything.

I told her that I do not consider hydration and nourishment as heroic efforts.

Needless to say, the discussion got heated from there, with my final comment being, fine. You want to pull the plug, you do it, but I won't be a party to it.