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Far Out In Left Field
Sometimes Left Field is The Best Place to Stand
I disagree with you assertion that “this proves that as a nation we care for nobody but ourselves.” It may seem cruel to think of a human life in terms of the money it costs to sustain it, but it is by no means selfish to sacrifice one’s own life (a depreciated life, mind you, one that depends almost entirely on machines and modern medicine) to benefit the “greatest social good,” as Nelson puts it. You may think of it as wrong (and you have clearly stated you do, via your emphatic capital letters), and it very well may be. But it is not self-serving. It is the opposite of self-serving. It is serving the greater good, amoral as that may seem to you. What is selfish is pouring indefinite amounts of the government’s heath care money into keeping a person alive that does not even want to live any longer. Letting a patient choose die is the obvious choice for both the patient and the economy, harsh as that may seem.
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March 1, 2009 6:20PM
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