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To: i-node who wrote (721455)	6/17/2013 12:20:31 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1583406

Making Better End-Of-Life Care Decisions thedianerehmshow.org Most Americans say they want to die at home, but 75 percent die in hospitals or nursing homes. Hospitalization often means aggressive, high-cost treatment at the expense of quality of life. And life-prolonging care accounts for 30 percent of total Medicare spending. Now, two Harvard doctors are making movies that visually depict common forms of end-of life care in hospitals. The short films show real patients receiving treatment such as emergency CPR and feeding tubes. Clinical studies show that patients who view these movies overwhelmingly opt out of costly, life-prolonging treatment. Diane and her guests discuss how to make better end-of-life decisions. EDIT: here is the URL for their foundation: acpdecisions.org They have videos online for those who are interested. Guests Angelo Volandes physician and researcher at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital and co-Founder of the Advance Care Planning Decisions Foundation. Aretha Delight Davis physician at Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Advance Care Planning Decisions Foundation. Naftali Bendavid correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, currently based in Brussels. Related Links Advance Care Planning Decisions Website "How Not to Die" by Jonathan Rauch (The Atlantic) "For Belgium's Tormented Souls, Euthanasia-Made-Easy Beckons" by Naftali Bendavid

To: i-node who wrote (721455)	6/17/2013 2:38:15 PM
From: one_less	5 Recommendations Recommended By Bilow Bonefish Brumar89 i-node tonto Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583406

I have seen examples of racial hatred in this decade but it is rare and usually the product of some maladjusted teenager's fear and ignorance. tejek is a dramma queen. However that is one of the few genuinely thoughtful posts I have ever seen tejek submit, assuming it isn't all fiction. That story is something I'd expect to find in a 1950s novel, written as an exaggeration in the first place to excite people about the need for change, and to promote white guilt. The norm now is not what tejek describes, the status quo is affirmative action. Women and people of color are entitled, not just in their own minds but in the legal sense. Minorities and women are well promoted in the work place and in community life. Nearly everyone in the USA has some relation to another race either through interracial marriages or adoption. People who express any other sentiment are ostracized by mainstream society. U.S. rate of interracial marriage hits record high usatoday30.usatoday.com tejek is not to be taken serious. He regularly exploits the idea of racial hatred as a pathetic partisan ploy. His sensitivity to the challenges and successes of women and people of any color is vacant when those people happen to be conservatives...tsk In other words>> Outstandingly full of shit.