Don't forget the third Emanuel brother.
Ari on the left is a Hollyweird bigwig...... here on the cover
of their memoirs. I think Mayor Rahm is standing on a box
(to look taller).
Posted on 09/20/2014 6:39:25 AM PDT by Rummyfan
An argument that society and families—and you—will be better off if nature takes its course swiftly and promptly
That’s how long I want to live: 75 years.
This preference drives my daughters crazy. It drives my brothers crazy. My loving friends think I am crazy. They think that I can’t mean what I say; that I haven’t thought clearly about this, because there is so much in the world to see and do. To convince me of my errors, they enumerate the myriad people I know who are over 75 and doing quite well. They are certain that as I get closer to 75, I will push the desired age back to 80, then 85, maybe even 90.
I am sure of my position. 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 theatlantic.com ...
Just visit any nursing home. Seventy five is a good time to die.
Death panels.
I'm 45 years old and already when I was 28 I told myself “If I would die now I would die as a happy man”.
This is not because I didn't have work left to do, but because at that age I had an OK car, a wonderful woman by my side, a decent income, a university degree, had reflected a great deal on life and the world in which I live and had traveled abroad to many fascinating countries.
Most other persons who've managed to reach this perspective on their own existence are way older than 28 (and even 45), but the problem is not that they don't experience a wonderful life until getting old, the problem is that they fail to realize how beautiful life actually is while actually alive.
“They are like him who, in the midst of water, Cries in thirst so imploringly” (I'm not a Zen Buddhist, but this is a pretty good Zen Buddhist saying.)
Yeah. No time like the present.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezekiel_Emanuel
Looks like a young guy right now. (Born in 1957) Says he is a bio-ethicist.
I don’t get how “Hope” enters into it.
If the guy wants to die at 75, he can die at 75. He’s from Chicago, right? All he has to do is wander into the right neighborhood at about 2am and things will take care of themselves.
Well, and there you have it. Of course he wouldn't be telling a tall tale, would he?
By Ezekiel Emmanuel
AKA The Brother of Rahm Emmanuel, AKA Ubama's Tojo.
Ezekiel is on behind the "Complete Lives" System, when the state has determined you are no longer a provide member of society, than you are to be gently dealt with.
Once you are obsolete.
If you say someone “wants to do something,” you really should provide something vaguely resembling evidence that your statement is true.
A flat statement by him that he doesn’t want to do it is pretty strong evidence to the contrary.
Look, I don’t know this guy, but it makes conservatives look stupid to claim, without evidence, that people “want to do” something they specifically say they don’t want to do.
75 is too young. Shoot for 83
I said, “in this article.”
The arguments in the article are not shown to be invalid by dragging in something else the author may have written.
I think the author makes good points, and I would enjoy reading others’ arguments showing why they are not good. Instead all the commentary so far has simply been variants of “The author is an asshole.”
While quite possibly true, it is irrelevant to the truth or untruth of his opinions.
I’ll die when the Lord wants me to die. Until then, I’ll have breath in my body and God will have some use for me.
Don't forget the third Emanuel brother.
Ari on the left is a Hollyweird bigwig...... here on the cover
of their memoirs. I think Mayor Rahm is standing on a box
(to look taller).
He designed Obamacare. ‘Nuff said.
I hike with guys and gals in their seventies (in a hiking group) - In some cases they out hike me, like they’re a quarter mile down the track and I play catch up. They wait.
What he has written has shown what he thinks!
He is an Asshole because of what he thinks and writes.
he is for Death panels! That Argument was invalided in 1945 >:(
But that hasn't stopped totalitarians since then.
“Complete Lives System” authored by Emanuel and is the basis of rationing medical care in Obamacare
Emanuel’s Reaper Curve -
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/04/ezekiel_emmanuels_reaper_curve.html
If you believe Ezekiel Emanuel when he says he does not want to make this policy, you are deluded indeed. This man is one of the architects of ObamaCare. He is publishing this article to mainstream the idea that the government kills you when you reach 75.
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