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To: plain talk

Everyone should be allowed to decide for themselves whether they want to continue living.

The more relevant question of this article is whether anyone has the right to make virtual slaves of strangers to prolong their own life. Can you demand healthcare that you have no way of paying for, knowing that it will lower the quality of life for hundreds of other people ? Isn’t that what is really happening when the government must tax hundreds of other people thousands of dollars each to pay for $500,000 of longterm nursing care for a comatose octogenarian ?


17 posted on 06/13/2012 10:44:28 PM PDT by Kellis91789 (The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.)
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To: Kellis91789

Kellis91789: “The more relevant question of this article is whether anyone has the right to make virtual slaves of strangers to prolong their own life.”

I posted something similar before I read your post. You sum the situation up well. You want others to pay, don’t complain when they make the decisions, right?


23 posted on 06/13/2012 11:58:14 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: Kellis91789
Isn’t that what is really happening when the government must tax hundreds of other people thousands of dollars each to pay for $500,000 of longterm nursing care for a comatose octogenarian ?

I don't know, how about comparing that to the cost of a death row inmate that has been there through several appeals and quality healthcare even in one case that included a heart transplant.

If you love your parents and grand parents then take care of them yourself, then they won't be a burden to society, else quit complaining, and just off them yourself.

Beside that the comatose patient is still voting.

24 posted on 06/14/2012 12:03:09 AM PDT by itsahoot (I will not vote for Romney period.)
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"60,000 Reichsmark is what this person
suffering from hereditary defects costs
the community during his lifetime.
Fellow Germans, that is your money,
too. Read 'New People', the monthly
magazine of the Bureau for Race
Politics of the Nazi Party."

69 posted on 06/18/2012 4:08:56 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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