These are not the Statist Busybodies you are looking for...
The trend these days is to permit this sort of decision. The problem lies in the government making that decision for us. And now that government is going to be paying the bills, you can be sure their thumb is going to be on the "suicide" side of the scale.
When Obama says that the 70-year-old grandmother should just get the pain pills instead of the heart surgery, he is not letting her die with dignity. He is just letting her die, cheaply. Whether or not there is dignity is not his concern.
I believe that was a 90 year old grandmother who needed a pacemaker—she obtained it from the 3rd or 4th surgeon and was still alive several years later.
When our doctor questioned me on Obama’s comment, I found the video of him actually making that statement and e-mailed it to him. Pain pills don’t do anything to regulate heartbeat but as usual, Obama had absolutely no clue about it—just like everything else.