Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Assisted Suicide

It seems that there is a movement to allow people a choice about when they die.  The choice that is envisioned is someone who has medical options and insurance.  They can undergo treatment or not.  They may have undergone treatment and it did not work.  Surgery did not work.  Chemo did not work and so on.  Do they go on suffering after all else has failed?  This is how choice is envisioned by most people.  But some people have no choice about treatment.  They are poor and no one wants to do anything for them.  The system cannot afford to care for them or is disinterested.  Here Assisted Suicide says take a pill.  Get out of your misery and cut the expenses of whatever system of dole is keeping you alive.  Die and decrease the surplus population.  We have enough poor as it is.  Assisted suicide is a lot cheaper than health care.  

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