Depends... On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tom, how about 10 years without Alzheimer's and then five more with > Alzheimer's? > > Gene > > On Sep 24, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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) > > _______________________________________________ > > pen-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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