To be fair, the author says, "I am not advocating 75 as the official statistic of a complete, good life in order to save resources, ration health care, or address public-policy issues arising from the increases in life expectancy." As long as he's only talking about his own healthcare choices and not advocating a policy, I don't see the problem.
The two policy implications he does outline also seem rather benign -- not basing evaluation of health care quality on longevity and focusing biomedical research spending on quality of life rather than radical interventions for prolongation of life. Given the choice of living 10 more years without Alzheimer's or living 15 with Alzheimers, I know which one I would chose. On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Gar Lipow <[email protected]> wrote: > > This proposal to cut off all but palliative healthcare for people over 75 > may be trial balloon, rather than just journalistic trolling. David Roberts > said in his facebook page that he agrees with every word. Ezra Klein > tweeted the link without comment. With Social Security cuts off the table, > at least until 2015, instead of forcing old people to live on cat food, I > guess the "Church of the Savvy" now wants to see if it can turn old people > into cat food instead. > > My mom is 92, and she recently managed to lacerate her shin. The > laceration became infected and is now being treated with antibiiotics. One > of the things this article advocates is no antibiotics for people over 75. > > Ice floe bioethics. We are better off dead after 75, so denying us > medical care from then is for our own good. The fact that it would fatten > the profits of the masters of the universe is merely a happy co-benefit > that it would be in very bad taste to discuss. > > > http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/ > > -- > Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow > Solving the Climate Crisis web page: SolvingTheClimateCrisis.com > Grist Blog: http://grist.org/author/gar-lipow/ > Online technical reference: http://www.nohairshirts.com > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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