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To: longnshort who wrote (8889)	11/8/2004 10:39:41 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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. WR

To: longnshort who wrote (8889)	11/16/2004 7:02:08 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 20039

As usual, the Washington Times is lying. Your article says: An International Monetary Fund report, "Economic Performance and Reforms under Conflict Conditions," released in September 2003, concluded that $900 million in Palestinian Authority revenues from 69 commercial enterprises had "disappeared" between 1995 and 2000. We have to turn to the more trustworthy Chicago Tribune for the rest of the story: "The bottom line is that the $900 million is accounted for," said Karim Nashashibi, the IMF official who conducted the 2003 audit. story.news.yahoo.com Tom