Speaking as an Actuary, Charles Blow is exactly right. There will be enormous costs as life spans increase. I don’t agree with many of Blow’s columns, but he’s right on the money with this one. He shouldn’t be criticized for facing simple reality.
In other words, Liberals want to "help" God decide when it is time to go. The entire liberal agenda is nothing more than idolatry; liberals displace God by supporting abortion, same sex marriage, death panels, and by interfering in every aspect of one's life.
Do liberals know that they are creating chaos? Satan loves chaos! Centralized government has a 100% failure rate!
People make a big mistake arguing issues with liberals. Liberals care nothing of issues - they care about obedience to the group. Liberals laugh at non-liberals because they see any interest other than group obedience and loyalty as, literally, stupid.
That’s why liberals are literally the end of the human race. All of human culture, spirituality, ethics, philosophy, knowledge, religion, science, logic, and anything else, is lower than dogshit to a liberal. Obedience to the group, to a liberal, is existence itself - literally nothing else matters.
The creation of liberals was not done by God - it was done by satanic forces offering protection, support, wealth and pleasure to human beings who voluntarily surrender their humanity. In that, it is an easily understandable issue.
The horror is the vast number of people who have chosen it, and the vast percentage of the human race they represent.
And remember, not all liberals call themselves liberals.
No, Obama and the left did not technically deny it, they just denied the term “death panels”. Obama himself said that Granny might not get a new hip, just a pill for the pain.
Someone should ask Blow if the physicist Stephen Hawking should be receiving expensive life extending medical treatment or should he have been snuffed years ago? What about Bob Dole and George H.W. Bush? Should Teddy Kennedy have been given extremely expensive brain cancer treatment after age 70? Should actor Larry Hagman have received a liver transplant? What about Dick Cheney’s heart transplant?
It is highly likely Mr. Blow would argue he and his fellow elites should be exempt from death panels because of their unique contributions to society. Blow and his fellow progressives are no different than the privileged throughout time, looking for special privileges and luxuries while denying them to the people they desire to lord over.
Once you’ve performed your duty to the collective you must gracefully exit the world.
The referenced Blow column here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/opinion/blow-radical-life-extension.html?ref=charlesmblow&_r=0