Re: OT-: Hillary's horns

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:45:12 -0500, "Carl A." <chainfl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



I appreciate your situation and respect you for standing by your debts.

But that wasn't the issue --- the issue was whether an incurably ill person
should be entitled to receive $500,000 per year from society in order to extend
life.

Personally, I think it is disgraceful that emergency situations like Tom and you
describe aren't taken care of on a compassion basis. In these situations we are
talking about investments in a curable situation. That's a far cry from
claiming to be entitled to receive $500,000 per year for life to artificially
keep a person alive.

If there's a federal entitlement for emergency situations then there
should be one for long-term illness, regardless of whether it's
curable or not, nor how expensive it becomes.

Plus, there is always hope for a cure either through medicine as a
science or via mysterious natural and inexplicable remission.There's a
program advertised for showing tonight on one of the major networks,
concerning three people with supposedly incurable, permanent
disabilities who were brought back to a useful life years after they
were diagnosed as incurable.

Too, a fireman died recently. He had been in a coma for several
years, and was considered practically brain dead. He suddenly woke up
and was able to talk intelligently with his relatives, but then
contracted pneumonia and died. Point is, he was kept alive and was
not relegated to the oven irregardless of his inability to contribute
to society.

While not everyone is compassionate towards those unable to help
themselves, we are still, I hope, a society where we try to exercise a
moral imperative, to do the right thing simply because it's the high
road.

There will probably always be federal taxes, much as we bitch about
them, and many will disagree about how the money is spent, but we are
not yet sunk so low that we will throw away a life simply because it's
not economically feasible to maintain it.

Canoli

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