What about Kevorkian?

[imp]

Curious what services are denied.

Denied is perhaps open to interpretation. What I meant was, and this definitely can be easily shown to be true, is that services and medications are manipulated in such a way by insurors as to be made unaffordable by many seniors. imp

 

[Debby]

I think that if "Assisted Suicide" becomes legal, a few years
down the line, when the population get way out of control,
they will start using it on the elderly, to make more room.

Mike.

If overpopulation was an issue I think governments would look to faster means....like ebola. Then they'd express shock and sorrow for our benefits that the virus had escaped the lab. And then there'd be an inexplicable failure in production of the medicine.

 

[imp]

If overpopulation was an issue I think governments would look to faster means....like ebola. Then they'd express shock and sorrow for our benefits that the virus had escaped the lab. And then there'd be an inexplicable failure in production of the medicine.

Maybe. Maybe,.....but, do you really believe they (governments) would seriously cut their inflow of tax revenues that way? War seems a more likely way to achieve their goals, IMO. imp

 

[Underock1]

Here in New Jersey, a right to die bill is working its way through the legislature. Governor Christie has promised to veto it.
He just lost my vote. Forget about "assisted" suicide. I don't think there should be any restrictions, unless you're going to blow yourself up, on a persons right to kill themselves. I'm not quite ready yet, but how I wish I had a pill available for when I am. Its not up to somebody else to decide whether I am "just depressed" and "have so much to live for". I've had a happy life. I was able to give my family one. I've seen my wife out. Now I am just a drag on everyone, sitting on a lot of assets that I don't need, and are at risk of ending up in the hands of some nursing home. Sure people love me, but that's just the way it is. Let me get out of the way, and give others their shot.

 

[Butterfly]

Denied is perhaps open to interpretation. What I meant was, and this definitely can be easily shown to be true, is that services and medications are manipulated in such a way by insurors as to be made unaffordable by many seniors. imp

It's not just seniors they are out of the reach of -- it's anybody without adequate insurance, and even many who do. Cancer drugs are so expensive they can be so far out of reach for most of us as to be impossible to pay for unless we qualify for Medicaid. SO, in order to be able to afford the drugs, you must first utterly beggar yourself so you can qualify for Medicaid. This was the case with my poor niece.

IMHO this isn't manipulation to decrease the surplus population -- it's plain old fashioned greed on the part of the pharmaceutical companies. Robber barons and worse, all of them!