@icyfroth wrote:
@boris1gary wrote:froth said -
It did also provoke thought. Some of the thoughts I went away with: "it costs $50.000 a day to keep a terminally ill patient in ICU."
75% of taxpayer-funded medical care is spent on ppl with, on average, only 6 mths to live anyway"
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the 50.000 you mention would not be the real cost. The amount of profit made on medical equipment, parts etc is outrageous, the profit on the cost of a lot of the medication is also huge - take away just those two things the real cost would be a lot lower. I remember some years ago one of the newspapers, think it was the telegraph, put the same question in regards to premature babies - was the cost justifiable, thankfully the horrible ideas put forward by the rag weren't picked up by the public or the medical profession. Surely human life should not be compared to the dollar.
Yes but define "life".
In this case an aged person close to death anyway living in a vegetative state being kept alive by artificial means at huge cost to the taxpayer and huge profit to the pharmaceutical and medical equpment companies?
If that was me, I'd refuse it.
froth, I'm not going to define life - just that i find it immoral (can't think of another word at the minute) to compare any life to "taxpayer';s dollars", I have my own personal views on euthanasia etc. Sometimes refusing treatment or whatever can literally mean starving to death, a very unpleasant way to go, I hear.
