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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m on your parents’ side.  They still feel there is value in living.  No one has the right to overrule them and decide that their life has less significance because of their age.  That’s a terribly slippery slope that I think we should be wary about.  If someone can determine that old people might not derive sufficient benefit from their life to justify the possible inconvenience to others, what’s to say that’s where the line gets fixed?  What about people with serious illnesses, physical disabilities, mental illness, cognitive impairment, chronic disease, addiction, poverty, people who aren’t likable, people who are just different, people whose death can benefit someone else?

Every life is precious.  [b]When we start marginalizing lives and trying to decide which are worthy of continuing[/b], all lives are imperiled.

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Doctors do this all the time. It’s why when a 75 year old needs a lung transplant they don’t get one - they give it to the younger healthier patient who who will get better/longer use out of it.

You may not like it, and think that everyone will be treated the same, but that’s just not the way it is. [/quote]

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