[phenn]

Organ harvesting is certainly something worth thinking about when it comes to things of this matter. But who else benefits when we start executing the disabled or elderly against their wishes? And, where is it all leading?

I realize this may sound a bit paranoid, but isn't medicine getting a bit too weird these days? It's all about cloning and building better tomatoes, but what about the people who are in serious need of intensive medical intervention? People like Terri and a million more like her? People who need the technology and advances that we strive for?

Terri costs money. Elderly cost money. Disabled cost money. Young couples who want designer babies or bigger (select organ here) or smaller noses or some kind of designer drug to make their child pay attention in school SPEND money.

Sounds like a rant, I know. But it almost makes sense.

Why keep disabled or elderly people around or treat seriously ill patients when there is so much MORE money to be made off of people who feed on sensationalized medical fears and claims of drug companies?

Look at all the drug adverts on telly. These people are interested in your health? Rubbish. They are in it for profit.

Medicine has lost its system of ethics, if you want my 2 cents.

I think the forces trying to off this young, innocent woman are a lot larger than any of us will ever understand. And I think there is a very systematic protocol or reasoning in place as well. I hope I'm wrong, but I can't help it if it crosses my mind.

-PH-

[Theodore R.]

I suspect that the families who authorize starvation by removal of feeding tubes are just interested in getting the former loved one out of the way so that they can resume their life of getting and spending. Plus, the sooner the disabled die, the more money there will be in any insurance settlement, will, or leftover bank account. I doubt that most think about selling organs.

But in the future, the sale of organs will become another unstated reason to hasten euthanasia in such cases.

One day for some the euthanasia will come back to haunt the family members who pushed it on their former loved ones.

[Theodore R.]

Also, have you seen the cartoon about the terminally ill woman whose life support is about to be turned off by her son?

The poor woman rises from her sick bed and shakes the son and tells him: "I knew that I should have aborted you TOO!!!!"

What goes around comes around, for liberals and all.

[windchime]

"I think the forces trying to off this young, innocent woman are a lot larger than any of us will ever understand. And I think there is a very systematic protocol or reasoning in place as well. I hope I'm wrong, but I can't help it if it crosses my mind."


Bump!