tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26527197.post6990720530854099069..comments2023-12-29T19:25:59.927-05:00Comments on We're Just Sayin: Pullin' the PlugIris&Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08131960635510843593noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26527197.post-54005901891894732622009-08-29T17:16:41.610-04:002009-08-29T17:16:41.610-04:00Bernie Madoff? Put him in a room with his victims,...Bernie Madoff? Put him in a room with his victims, and we'll see how quickly his 'plug' is pulled!<br /><br />Walter BriggsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26527197.post-3155099822774894602009-08-26T19:49:14.155-04:002009-08-26T19:49:14.155-04:00Having recently returned from my father's beds...Having recently returned from my father's bedside as he went from confirmed terminal diagnosis to dead in the matter of three weeks I can offer some thoughts on walking this philosophy.<br /><br />Dad declined the "palliative chemo" offered was discharged and was able to stay home. That was a plus. For him.<br /><br />About a week into the simultaneously perilously fast, and achingly slow process of dying he developed a chest infection.<br /><br />We decided not to call for antibiotics, but it was extraordinarily difficult to watch this relatively minor illness further burden his failing body. <br /><br />We doubted that decision to do nothing 100 times a day, and clung to it grimly, uncomfortably, as wrong and right as it felt.<br /><br />The point, I guess, is that it's extraordinarily hard to do. Not so much the decision not to plug in in the first place, or not to call for resuscitation at the end. It's the little stuff, the small steps and setbacks on the way to the end that are hard. Brace yourself is the best I can offer by way of help.<br /><br />PeaceACZnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26527197.post-76568748686063322262009-08-26T19:07:07.012-04:002009-08-26T19:07:07.012-04:00Correction..replace "government" with Co...Correction..replace "government" with Country when I wrote "drain on our government" I meant Country.<br />thanks<br />:)<br />Life is beautiful in Italy.<br /><br />MRHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26527197.post-54486520689505931212009-08-26T19:04:51.704-04:002009-08-26T19:04:51.704-04:00MC,
I'm in the military and you have no clue h...MC,<br />I'm in the military and you have no clue how bad the VA is. My wife is going through the VA processes now. It is not even close to first rate. It's a nightmare. My Tricare is funded off the backs of business and people that create wealth by producing tangible goods. Tricare has major problems and if all of America had Tricare we would run trillion dollar deficits every year. Government does not produce one single dollar of wealth. I am, as a member of the military as well as any other government funded and or paid person (politicians, public school teachers, municipal services, entitlement programs, etc) or program are in fact a drain on our government and suck the money dry from those who actually make money that is taxed to provide my income and my tricare. So take a course in economics and learn about how the dollar has lost value as we print more money with nothing...nothing to back it up. <br /><br />Why do you think Social Security will be broke in 2041 and medicare is broke now? How about we fix or eliminate the programs that are in the red first before we create new ones that will be in the red tomorrow too.<br />MRHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26527197.post-9743138078897819842009-08-26T16:50:55.178-04:002009-08-26T16:50:55.178-04:00The government has had its hand on Medicare for qu...The government has had its hand on Medicare for quite a while, dearest one. Also, Tri-Care for military people, the VA for vets and now considered a first rate innovative health care resource. Who knew? There's also the federal government plan which includes federal prisons and Members of Congress, of course. OPM allows the VA and federal prisons to negotiate cheaper drugs. When I hear some wing-nut Congressman start screaming about the scary spector of BIG GOVERNMENT I wonder, as Barney Frank asked recently, "what planet are you from? I've had Medicare for a few years now and have had no problems. so, don't worry. Be happy.<br />MCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26527197.post-41138192058072371852009-08-26T15:11:45.535-04:002009-08-26T15:11:45.535-04:00I believe when in doubt you always choose life. H...I believe when in doubt you always choose life. However there does come a point when it is ridiculous to revive and recesitate...for what to delay death for a week or more. If someone wants to be let to pass rather than be kept alive by the machines that keep the oxygen going, the blood flowing, and the heart pumping....that is not natural. That is artificial life and there we may find some common ground. The middle is lost today in the extreme left and right of the political world and media. Common sense is somewhere in the middle.<br /><br />MRH (Italy)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com