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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I personally don't understand this obsession with artificially prolonging life just for the hell of it.

Folks have dogs and cats on 3 times a day injections to force them to live into their late 20's. I had one coworker whose cat went blind and was diabetic. The poor cat was miserable and wouldn't walk around much because she was in pain. Rather than letting nature take its course, she pumped the poor cat full of medicine/pain-relievers because she couldn't handle dealing with the loss.

80-90 year old people taking dozens of medications just to "exist". I'm not talking about elderly people who are "present", but rather those who are damn near in a vegetable state.

Severally mentally retarded people receiving organ transplants, expensive medical treatments when their life expectancy is short (less than 20 years). What makes it even worse is that these severally retarded children/people have no say in their treatment and are in pain for reasons they can't understand. Why? Cause Mommy and Daddy couldn't deal with letting go.

Brain-dead people being kept alive by way of a machine. (Terry Schiavo comes to mind).

It really is obscene.

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Boy you really missed your era.  You'd fit right in with the Nazis.  Lovely.[/quote]

I don't think it's fair to jump to the Nazi place. I wouldn't classify as obscene people trying to extend their loved one's life, but I think the PP is otherwise correct. We do have an obsession with trying to extend life whether or not it'll work or be worth it. My husband knows my end of life wishes, and I'm sorry, but if I had a child who was born into a life of misery and pain, not that the little girl in question lives such a life, I would not want him or her to linger for the next surgery. I watched as very painful, very expensive, and ultimately useless treatments were used to try to extens my grandparents' lives. I don't want that. That isn't cruel, or at all in keeping with Nazi methodologies. It's compassion.[/quote]

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