RE: your next statement, how do you know that to be true? Do you work in the medical profession? Evidently not or you wouldn’t make such a statement. As far as being well supported by medicaid and social security that is the point! It is paid for by our government and social security will go broke if it’s not fixed. But you’re missing the entire point of the blog post which is about how people die.

And I have made the decision for a family member, being objective and as a nurse knowing they would not want to die hooked up to a machine and bunch of tubes. I have worked in Intensive Care Units, pulmonary thoracic care, cardiac and telemetry and have yet had a patient tell me please let me die this way. It’s almost always the opposite, don’t do this to me but when no living will and durable health care power of attorney in place a family member often calls the shots. And usually they don’t know what the hell to do.

I’m not saying there are extreme cases where a person is being kept alive simply beyond their time, however I know that is not the norm. How is that any different than us supporting the person on life support whose family just can’t give the order to unplug. In most cases that person is as well supported by medicaid and social security.

It’s easy to sit back when it isn’t a member of your family and make the decision, to see objectively. Yet would you want someone else telling you that your loved one must be unplugged.

There are arguments on both sides.