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Originally Posted by Armistead
We have to face one thing. We will spend trillions to keep the elderly alive for a few more years. This is the big issue. I know no one wants to kill off the elderly, but using medicine to keep prolonging life will bankrupt us until no one can afford healthcare..already has. Fact is this must stop.
The next crisis is the youth of today, 40% obese. We have the first generation that has a lower life expectancy than the former. They will be the generation of terrible chronic disease in a time when healthcare will be unavailable. I think Trump is out there, but I do agree with him we will be a two class society of 10% rich, 90% in poverty.
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The question is: What is the quality of the life that is prolonged. I've seen too many people, friends and relatives suffer immensely in the name of moral obligations. What's more moral? Letting a person (whose time has come) pass away peacefully or keeping them around to suffer as long as morality (or our distorted view of it) deems necessary? I don't know buddy. I fear I've become way too cynical over the years to adaquately answer that one.