On the other hand, I have no wish to be kept alive but unconscious, or even conscious but mentally incapacitated, through my last year or two. I once saw a statistic that said that 70% of the average persons health care costs are incurred in the last year of their life. I don’t know how accurate that number is, and I’d love to see better numbers on that, but I don’t understand why someone spend $200,000 to keep me alive, but not even healthy, for one more year.
It’s tough, and I’m not saying we should be killing the terminally ill, but I don’t understand the belief that ANY alternative is better than death.