[DeaconRed]

Who wants to live to 100?
Answer.
The 99 year old. . . . . .

[Lockbox]

So, bottom line it’s all about the money right libs? Not individual freedom or rights for this or that, no it’s the money!

[Big_Harry]

Yesterday evening we had a dinner guest that has reached her 103rd birthday, Sarah Reynolds. She is a joy to engage in conversation and would tell you that she is not ready, just yet. Her sister, Belle, pasted away a couple of years ago at 106.

My wife takes care of my mother, who is 91, and totally incapacitated by Alzheimer's. Her bright smile when you walk in the room would certainly be missed when the Lord calls her home, and I can't even imagine the guilt associated with making that ultimate decision for Him.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Intellectuals have a duty to die. Maybe we need a website to tell them how by the age of 25 they can jump off the Golden Gate Bridge or into the Grand Canyon or use some other method that will not inconvenience the rest of us.

[Condor51]

My 'duty to die will come when the Comanches are at the front door and I'm almost out of ammo. Then I'll save the last bullet for myself. That's when 'my duty to die' will come.

Oh. Wait?!? ....
This isn't 1874, I ain't in Texas and the Comanches are all peaceful now.

Never mind.

[Savage Beast]

"If a government-run medical system is going to save any serious amount of money, it is almost certain to do so by sacrificing the elderly."

Hey what an idea!

Why not just bump 'em off at a certain age--say 70--no, say 60--aw what the hell! 50--and we won't have to worry about retirement--retirement benefits--or listening to a bunch of geezers gripe!

And--what the hell--why not just pull the plug on all sick people! After all--why spend all that money coddling a bunch of whiny drags on society? They've got duty to get out of the way so the healthy can carry on. Isn't that the Law of the Jungle?

I think the Left is onto something: Make the Law of the Jungle the Law of the Land! (I think that's been their plan all along.)

(BTW--didn't they do this sort of thing in central Europe back in the 1930's? How did that work out? Anybody know?)

[thethirddegree]

I wonder what happens when the ‘ intelligentsia’ get long in the tooth?

[Arlis]

Great article, as all by Sowell.

Let’s see, if the logic is it’s my duty to die because I’m a burden to others, then it can only follow that all babies should be killed - as babies are as great a burden for care as the elderly. As the father of 8 (one wife), I should know.

Aren’t we close to that since we’re killing them in the womb now?

arlis

[Cvengr]

Everybody is going to die a first death, however, the keys of death and Hades are only held by Christ.

A common spiritual temptation is to lure the adolescent into believing that if they receive their inheritance early, their life will be secure.

[theBuckwheat]

Socialism attempts to seduce us with the fraudulent bargain that we can live at the expense of others if only we would allow them to live at our expense. This is seen in its brutally raw form when the majority votes benefits to itself by cutting benefits it promised to the elderly and infirm, a vote that the US Congress actually passed in the form of last year’s “health care” law.

[depressed in 06]

And, if you can confiscate their wealth at death you have the best of all worlds. At some point we need to set an upper limit on life. 21 sounds like a good number, after that everything is downhill.

[Vroomfondel]

In the book Moscow 2042, they get a handle on health care costs by deporting anyone who becomes ill.

[Salman]

There will be no death panels. The president said so.

Instead there will be some official making a decision. There might be disagreement on a panel.