Considering the consistent and worsening parade I have been forced to witness of incompetents, ethically challenged and criminally inclined populating the medical and caregiving professions:
Knowing that the day will come when I myself will be forced to rely on these individuals of questionable character:
Let me be the first to sign up for euthanasia at the age of 85.
Yes I am quite serious. I have no intention of allowing myself or the taxpaying public via Medicare to be party on my behalf to this usury and robbery.
God will judge, but if it is not in my lifetime..........
Would my mother have been better off if she had killed herself 9 years ago, so she wouldn't have to be cared for in the health care system? Her children certainly don't think so, nor does she. She intends to live to 100, like her sisters have.
My husband often wished he had died young when he got dementia. But health care enabled him to have the best quality of life he could. He (and I) loved and trusted his doctors. It was the disease that was awful, not the care.
LearningCurve, if you still feel this way at age 85, I hope you will have the options you want. Better yet, I hope you will get into a situation without so many unethical care providers.
frequentflyer: Profits are required but the rape of taxpayers via Medicare and Medicaid for unneeded procedures is rampant. How often does your charge visit the doctor? Monthly, weekly as some would wish here for no other reason than to bill for another office visit? Have you really not seen abuses?
Yes, I do have confidence in these people.
Gone are the days of the doctor with the little black bag, all his tools were in that one bag. Today with modern technology doctors have to keep up thus the cost of said items create a huge price overhead... doctor groups try now to be self sufficient so that the patient isn't running to a have dozen different places to have medical testing. Believe me, I can appreciate that.
Out of all the doctors that I have seen [it's been many in the past few years], my sig other has seen, and my parents have seen, all have been outstanding. The doctors have been different ethic backgrounds, different races, different religions, and different genders. I am still trying to convince my parents that doctors who are women are just as smart as doctors who are male, it's just my very elderly parents' generation talking.... [sigh]
Do you truly trust these individuals? Have you ever questioned the actions/inactions or motives? Do you have confidence in these professions to care for you when the time comes?
I do hope we are not deceived into thinking this is all OK and corporate policies are motivated by real compassion.
For me using euthanasia would be when I can no longer be a contributor to society, when my mind is totally out of whack, and/or my body racked with incurable diseases.