End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Was It Worth It

Re:End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Was It Wo... by pw0ncakes on Thursday March 04, 2010 @05:25PM (#1168242)

My own death doesn't scare or disturb me. It might happen suddenly tomorrow, or in 50 years, or in a million (if anti-aging succeeds). I'm sufficiently curious about what happens next not to be upset about the concept. (Although death is weird; I've never done it before.)

On the other hand, I'd fight for a child or a (healthy, not doomed to die soon) relative with everything I've got. Which is why it surprises the hell out of me that health insurance companies aren't getting the Joseph Stack treatment all over the place over rescissions and life caps.

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Re:End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Was It Wo... by giardini on Friday March 12, 2010 @01:06PM (#1187322)

You're genetically programmed to protect children. Doctors and hospitals know this and exploit it. Unfortunately children with cancer or birth defects are money sinkholes.

Spartan parents would kill children with defects. In contrast we keep physically and genetically damaged children alive (or on life-support in the case of cancer) at much cost to ourselves and at peril to our offspring. Would you want your daughter to marry a man who carried a life-threatening gene? Did she? That's what we're doing. Maybe someday we'll be able to fix these problems, but today we cannot.

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