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- From: kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran)
- Subject: A time to live, a time to die, a time to laugh, a time to cry...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.001252.26361@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <18qeapINNpvc@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >All of this has been happening over the past 40 years or so, true, but it's
- >the sheer number of the baby boomers that is going to bring this to the fore.
- >We simply cannot, as a people, afford $250,000 worth of medical care for
- >each and every old person to extend their lives by a few months. And before
- >anybody out there goes leaping upon me, please bear in mind that I'm older
- >than most of you...I'm no 18 year old kid to whom grey hair means 'ancient'.
- >I'm speaking instead of the skyrocketing cost of medical care that is a
- >demonstrable phenomenon in our society, and what I think will be happening
- >with it.
- >
- >I recall the description of pneumonia as 'the old man's friend', by a
- >physician friend of mine. As technology advances, and we *can* extend lives,
- >we have to decide when and when not to do so. (We being very rhetorical
- >in this case. I don't think *I* have any business deciding for someone else,
- >obviously (-:).
-
- Not that anybody is likely to care, but my living will goes into effect Monday,
- September 14, 1992. It states that "unusual methods" to prolong my life are
- only to be used for 7 days, and then _I_ want the plugs pulled. If _I_ can't
- survive on my own, then I would prefer to be gone.
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- =kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu | B(0-4) c- d- e++ f- g++ k(+) m r(-) s++(+) t | TSAKC=
- =My thoughts, my posts, my ideas, my responsibility, my beer, my pizza. OK???=
- ="When trying to choose between two evils, I like to choose the one I haven't =
- = tried before" - Mae West, but I think I'm going to try it also... =
-