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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11?
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To: longnshort who wrote (8889)11/8/2004 10:39:41 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 20039
 
Not relative to this guy, but I think generally people don't pull the plug from feelings of guilt, feelings of fear, feelings of loneliness. Sometimes faith. In our attempts to save their loved ones. we end up being cruel by keeping rotting bods, literally rotting sometimes, alive. It's sure not for the benefit of the patient.
It's also frightfully expensive. Most of our health care costs are spent in the first and last year of life; first, esp for premies and birth defects. Sometimes, we will get somebody 3 or 4 times in a year. Put them on a vent, tune them up, send them out, get them back. No quality of life at home, but let's tube them again. Sometimes I wonder if people would modify this a bit, if they had to pay the bills themselves. Families need to discuss this.

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