Posted on 09/19/2014 12:30:11 PM PDT by xzins
Democrats seem to love death. Whether they’re yammering about abortion or “end of life” planning, they just can’t get enough of talking up the myriad ways people can exit life’s stage. They always claim this is simply a discussion about personal responsibility and individual choice but, since they despise those ideals in virtually every other matter, it’s a hard argument to buy.
Enter Ezekiel Emanuel.
Emanuel was one of the chief architects of ObamaCare and is, of course, the brother of Rahm. Over at The Atlantic, he’s penned an article about his own death and he’s made a shocking announcement about the perfect age at which he hopes to die. While he very specifically rules out euthanasia, Emanuel says he hopes his ticker shuts down at the not-particularly-old age of 75.
The reason? 75 is, apparently, the perfect age for a human to buy the farm. According to Emanuel, people who live longer than that risk struggling through a less-than-perfect existence.
Doubtless, death is a loss. It deprives us of experiences and milestones, of time spent with our spouse and children. In short, it deprives us of all the things we value.
But here is a simple truth that many of us seem to resist: living too long is also a loss. It renders many of us, if not disabled, then faltering and declining, a state that may not be worse than death but is nonetheless deprived. It robs us of our creativity and ability to contribute to work, society, the world. It transforms how people experience us, relate to us, and, most important, remember us. We are no longer remembered as vibrant and engaged but as feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Watching those morning shows talk about who is 100 today would be awkward.
This guy is on my airport list.
Ye can be like God...
obama wanted to kill a women who needed a pacemaker and obama said to the daughter that she should be given a painkiller instead. He went on to say that some people have lived long enough. That women got the pacemaker and is over 100 years old.
Ezekiel Emanuel and obama can die right now and make the world a much better place.
BTW Ezekiel Emanuel parents are in their 80’s.
Why doesn’t he just kill then off to show the rest of us!!
Watch for an increase in the minimum retirement age to begin receiving SS benefits. New age will be 76. Executive order coming up right after the elections...
You can bet if obamacare is not removed that any conservative will be killed off by denying medical care.
“Emanuel says he hopes his ticker shuts down at the not-particularly-old age of 75.”...
I hope it does too and perhaps he can skip a few years to hasten it.
At 77, I will be watching.
The key point is that he thinks he should be the judge of that.
I love how he thinks he gets to decide for the rest of us what our existence should be. My "existence" does not actually need to be "perfect". I understand that I am human, interacting with fellow humans. Being human means that I am inherently imperfect. Rising above our "imperfections" is part of life. Who is this guy, and why does everyone seem to think that he knows what he is talking about. He is a typical leftie who thinks he knows how everyone else should live. Truly, a miserable human being.
Great Grandma = 99
Great Grandpa = 86
Great Grand Aunt = 102
Grandpa G = 95
Grandma G = 82
Grandma & Grandpa F = 93
Mom still going strong at 82 (just spent a week hiking around at 9,300 ft.)
Pretty sure I’m not signing up for this Fascist’s death panels.
He is really old looking for 57. I already see him as obnoxious as well as “ineffectual, even pathetic.” He will want to stick around at 75 to keep telling everyone else what they should do.
snicker
He looks rode hard and put away wet. That’s the oldest looking 57 year old man I’ve ever seen in my life.
Are we totally sure that he’s only 57? Sheesh. I would have said 70.
I guess, being a murderous, control-freak liberal, he probably has the face he deserves.
Dr Death’s plan c0uild clean out a lot of dead wood in the US Congress
“She was an avid voter until 91, when her dementia wouldn’t allow her to vote anymore”.
If she were a dem she would still be voting.
Or just before birth.
Which reminds me - Leonard Cohen just came out with a new album... He’s turning 80 soon...
Here’s a preview:
http://www.npr.org/2014/09/15/347480040/first-listen-leonard-cohen-popular-problems
I didn’t know that Cohen was still alive. That being said, I couldn’t name a single song that he wrote.
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