” I can’t disagree with that.”
Until its you or your grandmother on the receiving end of that decision.
When your parents get old and sick, there comes a time when many people are asked to make that choice. It is not uncommon for many people to sign the DNR form for their own parents.
“Until its you or your grandmother on the receiving end of that decision.”
Oh no, even then. I’m not a hypocrite - you’ll find those primarily on the left.
The key is ‘public resources’, which shouldn’t be involved.
We’ve got to get away from this idea that we are being callous if we don’t spend huge sums of money to prolong life a few months; that is not “putting a dollar value on life,” it is recognizing reality.
Yours is an emotional response to a logical statement, which is the common friction between the Conservative argument and the Liberal response.
Until it’s your grandmother and all she wants to do is live long enough to see her grandchild get married, or get to hold her newborn great grandchild one time.
The problem here is that there’s been a commitment made, one that a lot of people have helped finance over the years and have an expectation that the commitment will be kept.
The original commitment may have been dumb, unworkable, unsustainable etc. But how do we get out of it given the fact that just about everyone niow benefitting from it contributed to it as the govt ordered them to?
Really? My family is composed of traditional Catholics, very pro-life, but we don't want any heroic life-extending measures for a terminal illness. God gives us a certain limited time on earth. I have a feeling the ones who want the equivalent of an executive's salary every few months in health care are afraid of dying and what comes after or believe there is no after.