If we don’t want to give all our hard earned estate to drug companies, doctors and hospitals, we need to know how to plan an at home death. I cared for my mother and husband when they were dying of congestive heart failure and Alzheimers and the doctors said there was nothing more they could do. Neither wanted to die in a hospital hooked up to a lot of machines, so they begged me to care for them through the end. I had home Hospice which came in and helped in the last weeks. My Scots background husband said he’d be damned if the money he had worked so hard to save was going to the medical profession if he could help it. He wants it to go to our children and grandchildren after I am gone. Getting information from doctors you respect that nothing can be done to reverse the rapid dying process is not a “death panel”, it is reality. Like it or not! And I for one don’t plan to enrich the medical/pharmaceutical industrial complex.
I understand what you’re saying, and you make a fair point. But if I understand correctly, your family made that decision not to be connected to machines for themselves, not the government.
My nephew (ten years old) has lung cancer, and I don’t want Obamacare bureaucrats making a cost-benefit decision about his life. My sister has taken a leave of absence to nurse him back to health, at a financial cost, of course, to her family.
Each life is precious, no matter how young, or how old.