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The Convenient Death
National Review Online ^ | October 06, 2009 | The Editors

Posted on 10/06/2009 7:38:55 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: Ronin
Does anyone else remember the movie “Coma”?

Or "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life."

*Knock*Knock* Hello, we're here for your liver..."

Mark

21 posted on 10/06/2009 8:32:22 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: neverdem

Ah! LEBENS UNWERTE LEBENS. Glad to see collectivist medicine and science hasn’t changed all that much since the ‘30s.


22 posted on 10/06/2009 8:54:21 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: neverdem

Wow. Solve the artificial shortage created by the government ban on compensation (making lifesaving implements effectively worthless) by redefining death to include the living?

Doublespeak much?


23 posted on 10/06/2009 8:59:21 PM PDT by BobbyT
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To: Ronin
Does anyone else remember the movie “Coma”?

Read the book, absolutely chilling, and it seems quite prophetic...

the infowarrior

24 posted on 10/06/2009 10:03:08 PM PDT by infowarrior
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To: Liberty1970

Sure sounds like something from Larry Niven’s “Known Space” timeline.


25 posted on 10/06/2009 10:56:55 PM PDT by coydog (Time to feed the pigs!)
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To: coydog; Liberty1970

There’s also a great book by the British author Kazuo Ishiguro (who wrote Remains of the Day) titled “Never Let Me Go,” about a group of young people in Britain who have been bred and brought up solely to be used for supplying organs.


26 posted on 10/07/2009 3:31:45 AM PDT by livius
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To: victim soul
Awesome “cartoon”

I love the way a great cartoonist can cut right to the heart of an issue (no puns intended) so much quicker and clearer than most wordsmiths.
Just imagine if you could send the cartoon of the day to Obama to read with his morning briefing!!
With his thin skin he would be even more of a wreck than he normally is.
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27 posted on 10/07/2009 6:42:59 AM PDT by Iron Munro (I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take a beating.)
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To: neverdem

sheesh!!You’ll have to pay to buy an “HIV” + lab test to be left alone!!!


28 posted on 10/07/2009 10:14:39 AM PDT by mo
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To: neverdem
13 October, 2030

Federal Bureau of Organ Redistribution

Dear Mr. Drill:

Thank you for applying to the Organ Donation Program. Our doctors have had a look at yours. You can keep them.

J. Kevorkian, MD


Dang it.

29 posted on 10/07/2009 10:32:42 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: infowarrior; Ronin
I remember that move: Michael Douglas was in his prime, and Geneviève Bujold was as well.

A young Tom Sellek made his appearance.

That movie creeped me out, as much for the atmospherics as for the plot.

30 posted on 10/07/2009 11:44:25 AM PDT by happygrl (Hope and Change or Rope and Chains?)
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To: Iron Munro

Right on the money!


31 posted on 10/09/2009 4:41:15 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Redefining death op-ed. Thanks neverdem.


32 posted on 10/11/2009 7:46:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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