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[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[DC Tom]

Do you really want your legacy to be based "your" an idiot, four times a day for like forever?

 

Of course not. It mixes it up. It also posts "You're a !@#$ing moran" and "Correlation is not causation, dumbass."

 

Did you notice I didn't even say, "gotcha"?

 

In the interest of making you feel validated: yes, I noticed. Now go have a cookie, you've earned it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nice open floor plan with three stories high. Bet that's a B word to heat/cool.

 

Conservation is for the 1%, apparently.

[3rdnlng]

Now that's humorous.

[ExiledInIllinois]

My father was literally on his deathbed last December. He is in the VA system. My older sister who is an RN not with the VA, wanted to yank the plug the minute sledding got rough. My father was pretty bad, I almost believed her considering she is a nurse. She yelled @ my brother and I on the phone saying: "Dad is toast, let him go!" My younger sister and I could have easily given up on him, but we didn't. My older brother, not so much. Being a nurse, she is so clinical and cold and has ZERO faith. I don't even thinks she believe in any kinda of God, not that it is a big deal... It was just shocking that she would give up so fast.

 

Anyway, my father made a full recovery and is back to living independently. Thank God my younger sister and I followed our faith and not our clinical older sister's advice (she wouldn't have swayed my brother). If she wasn't my sister, who I still love dearly, she would be treated like the cold, clinical, FAITHLESS aholes that Tom and JA are. Not that I can't see both sides of the argument here... But who decides when the exact time is right? Where do "miracles" come into play? Are we really this Godless/faithless? My sister's threshold was 4 days, my other siblings and myself was 4 weeks. I gotta admit, through much of the ordeal, it looked pretty hopeless.

 

Let's just say this. Dad doesn't know what older sis had in store for him. Gotta hand it to her, it was like she was trying to be a good steward of the taxpayer's (VA system) money and bump her father off... She should work for the post office and count steps that the mail carriers are taking.

[John Adams]

I may be faithless but my religious wife works hospice, and believes that both doctors and families screw this decision up all the time, costing tons of money (not her concern because she's as socialist as EII, wacka, and 3rd) and disrespecting their quality of life.

 

People keep saying we can't deny care. Here's the problem: If you don't deny care somewhere, the system will break this country. The socialized medicine you are all so eager for is not sustainable. What I'm saying is that we need to deny care somewhere, and the 25% of medicare money that is going to end of life care is at least one area we can look at. But EII and 3d and their ilk won't budge--they want us to keep spending, common sense be damned. And that's the heart of the matter. No one ever wants to say "no mas."

 

By the way, if you have faith, shouldn't you be more willing to die? Not seek it out necessarily, but be more OK with the next step?

[3rdnlng]

I may be faithless but my religious wife works hospice, and believes that both doctors and families screw this decision up all the time, costing tons of money (not her concern because she's as socialist as EII, wacka, and 3rd) and disrespecting their quality of life.

 

People keep saying we can't deny care. Here's the problem: If you don't deny care somewhere, the system will break this country. The socialized medicine you are all so eager for is not sustainable. What I'm saying is that we need to deny care somewhere, and the 25% of medicare money that is going to end of life care is at least one area we can look at. But EII and 3d and their ilk won't budge--they want us to keep spending, common sense be damned. And that's the heart of the matter. No one ever wants to say "no mas."

 

By the way, if you have faith, shouldn't you be more willing to die? Not seek it out necessarily, but be more OK with the next step?

I suggest that health care is first denied to those that try to put words in other people's mouths. You know who I'm talking about, it's those obtuse asswhipes who twist what other people say and then proceed to argue with their fake premise. Those are the people who are a burden on society and offer no good reason for living, while denying health care to more experienced individuals.

[John Adams]

Tank you for paying for my healthcare 3rd. Sorry that I got you dancing again. Carry on.

[3rdnlng]

Tank you for paying for my healthcare 3rd. Sorry that I got you dancing again. Carry on.

 

Have you ever wondered why you don't get into any real discussions here? You always twist what the other people say to try to ridicule them. You are a waste of my time.

[DC Tom]

My father was literally on his deathbed last December. He is in the VA system. My older sister who is an RN not with the VA, wanted to yank the plug the minute sledding got rough. My father was pretty bad, I almost believed her considering she is a nurse. She yelled @ my brother and I on the phone saying: "Dad is toast, let him go!" My younger sister and I could have easily given up on him, but we didn't. My older brother, not so much. Being a nurse, she is so clinical and cold and has ZERO faith. I don't even thinks she believe in any kinda of God, not that it is a big deal... It was just shocking that she would give up so fast.

 

Anyway, my father made a full recovery and is back to living independently. Thank God my younger sister and I followed our faith and not our clinical older sister's advice (she wouldn't have swayed my brother). If she wasn't my sister, who I still love dearly, she would be treated like the cold, clinical, FAITHLESS aholes that Tom and JA are. Not that I can't see both sides of the argument here... But who decides when the exact time is right? Where do "miracles" come into play? Are we really this Godless/faithless? My sister's threshold was 4 days, my other siblings and myself was 4 weeks. I gotta admit, through much of the ordeal, it looked pretty hopeless.

 

Let's just say this. Dad doesn't know what older sis had in store for him. Gotta hand it to her, it was like she was trying to be a good steward of the taxpayer's (VA system) money and bump her father off... She should work for the post office and count steps that the mail carriers are taking.

 

Why is it that you morons think "end of life care" means pulling the plug on someone who's treatable? There's a difference between "terminally ill" and "seriously ill."

[dayman]

stop killing grandma Tom

[3rdnlng]

Why is it that you morons think "end of life care" means pulling the plug on someone who's treatable? There's a difference between "terminally ill" and "seriously ill."

 

I for one know the difference. You and JA were the ones confusing the two.

[Chump Change]

Thank you.

 

To the "Get back to me on my death bed?" crowd, your attitude is the exact problem we are facing. You are going to die. Soon. When I'm 84 and need heart surgery to replace a valve, what I won't do is ask you to pay for it, OK? And frankly, I won't probably pay for it myself. I'm not going to fight for every last breath so I can lie in a hospital for the last 2 years of my life. I prefer a quality of life to a quantity of life. Americans and American doctors are so afraid of death it's pathetic. Our end-of-life care in this country is ignorant and atrocious. We see everything as a medical problem to be solved instead of looking for ways to have a slightly prolonged quality of life. Most people would rather have 18 months of sick-wasting away chemo than 2 months at home and getting about until they die.

 

Agree completely with this and your earlier posting. My 96 yr. old Grandma suffers from dimentia and has for the past 5 years. She doesn't know her name, nor ours. It's sad.

[ExiledInIllinois]

I may be faithless but my religious wife works hospice, and believes that both doctors and families screw this decision up all the time, costing tons of money (not her concern because she's as socialist as EII, wacka, and 3rd) and disrespecting their quality of life.

 

People keep saying we can't deny care. Here's the problem: If you don't deny care somewhere, the system will break this country. The socialized medicine you are all so eager for is not sustainable. What I'm saying is that we need to deny care somewhere, and the 25% of medicare money that is going to end of life care is at least one area we can look at. But EII and 3d and their ilk won't budge--they want us to keep spending, common sense be damned. And that's the heart of the matter. No one ever wants to say "no mas."

 

By the way, if you have faith, shouldn't you be more willing to die? Not seek it out necessarily, but be more OK with the next step?

 

My sister was hell bent on moving him to Hospice. The VA threw a lot of money @ him and it was short of a miracle that he pulled through. Everthing w/him shut down... Amazing he isn't on dialysis now...

 

Why is it that you morons think "end of life care" means pulling the plug on someone who's treatable? There's a difference between "terminally ill" and "seriously ill."

 

Which I understand.

[DC Tom]

I for one know the difference. You and JA were the ones confusing the two.

 

Yeah, it's not like you posted something blisteringly stupid like "So, my elderly parents should just die because you think it might be expensive to keep them alive?" or anything. It's everyone else's fault we didn't understand you weren't posting what you actually meant.