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Question: Let's say even through our system is way in the red, there's about $2 trillion of taxmoney per year. Let's say that every year, there are 2 million people between the age of 70-120 who are on their deathbed and even though this next part won't likely be true, hypothetically speaking, let's say that to keep these people alive for one more day costs $500,000 each per day. Would you keep any of them alive for a day or longer? How many of them? Which ones? Why spend it on them vs. spending it on people with many many years left of life to live?

So yea, this is an overblown picture, but it's sort of what comes to mind with this topic. My grandma died after having a major stroke...not immediately after, but over 2 years after. She didn't speak a single word after she had had this stroke, and while did move the slightest bit, didn't really function much except to open her mouth the slightest bit when people would feed her. She was at the hospital for most of that time then was brought home and had 24 hour care.

Fastforward 12 years and even a small fraction of the money spent on keeping her alive for that time would help my parents, siblings etc. get through this rough economy. It would hard to be "that guy" that says fuck it, let her die, but it's just one of those things that feels a bit backwards in the scope of things.

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