Oh my god. it's Robby!
spontaneously luminescent
So I've just watched a Louis Theroux that dealt with keeping people on life support long after there is any chance that they will wake up
or only wake up in some severely diminished capacity.
Now I happen to know for a fact that these cases are a massive drain on the American economy, whether it be in costs to individuals, the government or some entity(insurance companies ) in between.
Also, I have personally dealt with this twice, first with my father back in 2001 and many years later with one of my brothers.
In my father's case I knew that after a week like that enough was enough and hearing from the doctors that he would never THINK like he did before, the decision was easy for me.
My mother had a more difficult choice, Ray was young, but I knew he would hate to be kept alive by some damn machine, he was about as "Luddite" as it gets, a real take care of yourself kind of dude, a throwback if you will to a different age, dammit, he was f***in Cowboy, he didn't just talk the talk, he walked the walk!
And well, even though he was all that, he was a organ donor, always looking out for others even in death so my mom had to make the decision after about 4 days,
the organs start to really degrade after that. She made the right decision, Ray's eyes helped another man to see again and his other organs went into another 3 people.
To be honest, this made his passing at 29 a little more easy to deal with, not much, but a little.
So when I see these people clinging to false hope, keeping the "dead alive" often at us taxpayer's expense, I get real angry.
It makes feel a little shameful when I see the statistics that minorities unable to pay for such care make up the majority of these costs.
I don't want to be racist, so what we really need is education, I get that these people see some usually "white doctor" and think he just does not care about their relative.
However, this is just not the case, because the facts are that we insured "White" Americans are about 70% less likely to keep the bodies of our loved ones "alive" beyond a week.
How to make this clear to those different I don't know, but if the USA does not then it will eventually drown in medical costs.
Not to mention the fact that one must recognize that the wishes of the "living dead" are often not recognized by these people
and while many profess to "have faith" wouldn't the real proof of that be in turning the machines off, not relying on them?