In “Old people and the ‘duty to die’”, columnist Thomas Sowell opines “Back in the days of Aunt Nance Ann, nobody in our family had ever gone to college. Indeed, none had gone beyond elementary school. Apparently you need a lot of expensive education, sometimes including courses on ethics, before you can start talking about ‘a duty to die.’”
WATCHDOG: Such drivel. When Aunt Nance Ann was old and rapidly declining in health, no family member would have dreamed of spending from $100,000 to a half million dollars trying to prolong her life a few months or a year, let alone losing the family farm and store as a result of the cost.
The issues is not health care, it is Herculean health efforts. Under Medicare or insurance programs, someone at 30 deserves a heart or liver transplant more than a person at 75 or 80. If we spend most of our health budget on extraordinary measures to extend life for the aged, there won’t be money to provide health care for children, pregnant women and younger Americans.
If a person properly matures in attitude as they age, they understand this and would not have it any other way.
