Posted on 12/02/2013 1:16:26 PM PST by Haiku Guy
they will eventually
“radical life extension”??
What is “radical”? and WHO decides?
My Great Aunt lived to 102 and was sharp until the end, without ever having any serious medical conditions.
She read meaningful literature every day, and carried on in depth conversations.
What does the author think about her living well past his arbitrary expiration age of 80?
I beat cancer at 53. Was that “radical”.
I beat MRSA a few months later. Was that “radical”?
I survived losing 3 liters of blood, from a botched simple procedure. Was that “radical”?
This clown is trying to place a price on life, and pretending there will be some “ethical” way to define “radical”.
As I wrote in a term paper 40 years ago, “dignity”, “ethical”, “radical”, “extreme”, are simply terms used to distance liberals from their “master race” mentality.
I didn’t know you took that picture of me. I’m running for Miss America when I’m 90.
myself
We give transplants from dead people and aeortic valves from pigs to people who would otherwise die.
What was the question again?
Well, I'm 82, and I've just published a couple of books that people seem to be buying. Moreover, my grandchildren enjoy my company. I think those things are worthwhile.
BIG BS is right. Averages don't tell the story. Each individual is different, and it is an abomination for some pin headed unelected bureaucrat to think that they should have the power to dictate end of life decisions. They ain't God and they ain't family!
And that same lib, will tell you that granny can't be on life support, is the same one that will tell you that you shouldn't have the death penalty for murders. What irony.
I am beyond disgusted with all the Washington DC chattering negative nabobs. I hope they all choke on a chicken bone and suffer laryngitis the rest of their days.
It should be called The Obomination Death Care Panels for sure. Just doing the job that your family should be doing, if we were really a free nation under God.
Back where I come from, what you call “aging”, we call “living”.
Show me the person who lives without aging...
Even if we cracked ageing, so that noone need grow old, there’s still war, famine and pestilence.
I wish very much that I could, and the person in question was me. I'm reminded of the cliched scene in a war movie wherein the grizzled sergeant says (right before the big assault), "C'mon...you guys want to live forever?"
Just once, I want some to say, "Well, actually...yes!"
Euphemistically: the End-of-Life counseling panel.
We already do this to about 25% of all viable pregnancies!
We 'Choice' to death about 3,300 every day in this country.
(Did I mention we are doomed?)
If we can do this LEGALLY on the front end of life; then there will be NO way in Hell of STOPPING doing it on the back end!
Almost 2K years ago, a fella came along and told folks that they WOULD live forever.
Many believe Him still.
It's a personal choice. I, or my family, should decide.
Christianity (and Abrahamic religions in general, for that matter) is a very powerful meme, one which has and continues to spread throughout history. I sometimes speculate on what it must be like to believe in such things; I suppose it's very comforting, but I've never been one to have faith in, well...anything.
Sure you have!
The chair you are sitting in won't collapse...
The car starts in the morning..
The sun will come up tomorrow...
Your heart will continue to beat until nightfall...
There are THOUSANDS of things you have faith in; mainly because they've never let you down.
I'll bet you even have faith that when you die that'll be it.
The chair you are sitting in won't collapse...
I have no faith that such an event will not concur, but the likelihood that it will collapse while I am sitting in it is sufficiently low as to not warrant preventative action.
The car starts in the morning..
I have no faith that such an event will not concur. It has happened in the past will almost certainly happen in the future.
The sun will come up tomorrow...
Extremely likely, but not a certainty. I can think of half a dozen astronomical events just off the top of my head that would prevent it from doing so.
Your heart will continue to beat until nightfall...
There is a small but finite chance that on any given day this will not be the case, and I acknowledge it.
There are THOUSANDS of things you have faith in; mainly because they've never let you down.
You have yet to name one.
I'll bet you even have faith that when you die that'll be it.
You would lose that bet. While I have no belief in life after death, I do not assert that it does not exist. I simply see no reason to believe that it does.
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