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ObamaCare architect Ezekiel Emanuel has anounced the ‘optimal age of death’ - you won’t like it
Ezekiel Emanuel is presenting in sanitized terms the rationale for 'death panels' and eventual euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (although he claims to oppose legalizing euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide). He is co-author of Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet...?_eventId=login which proposes concentrating health care resources on those between 15 and 40 based upon 'the complete lives system'
ZitatWhen implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance,
ObamaCare architect Ezekiel Emanuel has anounced the ‘optimal age of death’ - you won’t like it By Robert Laurie Friday, September 19, 2014
Democrats seem to love death. Whether they’re yammering about abortion or “end of life” planning, they just can’t get enough of talking up the myriad ways people can exit life’s stage. They always claim this is simply a discussion about personal responsibility and individual choice but, since they despise those ideals in virtually every other matter, it’s a hard argument to buy.
Enter Ezekiel Emanuel.
Emanuel was one of the chief architects of ObamaCare and is, of course, the brother of Rahm. Over at The Atlantic, he’s penned an article about his own death and he’s made a shocking announcement about the perfect age at which he hopes to die. While he very specifically rules out euthanasia, Emanuel says he hopes his ticker shuts down at the not-particularly-old age of 75.
The reason? 75 is, apparently, the perfect age for a human to buy the farm. According to Emanuel, people who live longer than that risk struggling through a less-than-perfect existence.
Zitat Doubtless, death is a loss. It deprives us of experiences and milestones, of time spent with our spouse and children. In short, it deprives us of all the things we value.
But here is a simple truth that many of us seem to resist: living too long is also a loss. It renders many of us, if not disabled, then faltering and declining, a state that may not be worse than death but is nonetheless deprived. It robs us of our creativity and ability to contribute to work, society, the world. It transforms how people experience us, relate to us, and, most important, remember us. We are no longer remembered as vibrant and engaged but as feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic.
Emanuel rambles on in a painfully long-winded argument about how modern medicine is extending lives but, in his view, does so by keeping people in a sad, miserable, and often painful state. The elderly are not enjoying being alive and - according to Emanuel - become burdensome shadows of their former selves. ..............................................
"See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it." Deut 30:15 (repeated at 30:19)
"Democrats seem to love death". That really should read the secular humanists who dominate our culture and the Democrat Party love death (not "seem to"). Emanuel may give lip service to ruling out euthanasia but that is the one of their goals and, as in Nazi Germany, will grow to include the handicapped, the less than perfect at any age, the useless eaters who consume but do not produce.
This worship of death began here with abortion and will end with our destruction.
If ISIS Is Not Islamic, then the Inquisition Was Not Catholic~~Jerry Coyne at NewRepublic.com
I enjoy seeing people who have been fully discredited running their mouth like like they still know what they are talking about. The architect to Zerocare would definitely be one of those people.
ZitatThe reason? 75 is, apparently, the perfect age for a human to buy the farm. According to Emanuel, people who live longer than that risk struggling through a less-than-perfect existence.
Raquel Welch - Age 74
You have one year left, baby...
...make it a good one.
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Proverbs 8:36 (KJV)
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man