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 ...
He’s Rahm Emmanuel’s brother and had input into the crafting of obamacare. He’s no conservative.
“Once I have lived to 75, my approach to my health care will completely change. I won’t actively end my life. But I won’t try to prolong it, either.”
Yeah right.
You and this guy are cut from the same hypocritical cloth.
Even though many people have been paying into the health care system their entire life without using it.
When you start to really need it they want to take it away. From you that is not them, they will make exceptions for their favorite groups/people.
Exactly.
Why wait Zeke? You’ve more than enough damage.
Why can't you read between the two thick black lines that have a hundred other lines between them pointing straight at each other? The entire purpose and point of this article, written by someone with the most Left-wing possible agenda and intimately involved in actually creating what are being "straw-manned" as "healthcare" laws, is to acclimatize people to the idea that they will be terminated at a certain age by the government.
Wake the hell up - he said he was against this, in THIS article? And you see no contradiction requiring political interpretation based on Leftist agendas that are historically based on passing laws for mass murder? This is the same guy who helped make and support Obamacare. This is the guy who believes gun ownership is a healthcare issue. AND - this is the guy who is now talking about making the amount of years anyone lives subject to suicide for his own personal altruistic, nonselfish reasons - and you believe him when he says he's just talking about his own personal feelings applied only to himself? Buy a clue.
“...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....”
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I hope you just inadvertently left out “...had wonderful children....” from your “accomplishments” and aren’t like so many other Swedes (and Europeans) who essentially leave production of offspring to your Muslim immigrants.
A principled position. Let me ask ... if you read an article where 0bama said ... 'If you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan' ... would you take him at his word?
I don't give Zeke Emmanuel any more credibility than I do 0bama ... and with good reason.
I think you misunderstand. I’m not giving any credibility to Mr. Emmanuel whatsoever. I’m suggesting that his ideas, whatever their source, are worthy of discussion rather than just dismissal because of who proposes them.
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