Author suggests there will some sort of reckoning in the afterlife for healthcare providers that desperately try to save a life? I think that goes pretty far. You think there might be a reckoning if you just pick and choose who lives and who dies?
If the author is so disturbed by saving lives, perhaps they should be having a reckoning with the God they think set the system up.
it's sad to see these people as shells of their former self, wasting away their savings when they'd surely chose to be dead if given a choice, and simply surviving, not living. but I honestly don't know the solution. when I visit my wife's grandmother or my own grandfather before he passed most of the people there are in a similar situation. outside of some being given some oxygen, no one working there is doing anything overly extraordinary to keep these people alive.
She could tell future dates she gives KILLER bj's... To die for, even! I bet that's how Ksush would spin it, anyway...
I have memories of my maternal great grandmother that lived to be 101 or 102. And every single memory of her, she is completely bedridden and nearly unintelligible. I just remember thinking that if this is what life at 100 was like, I wanted no part of it. And I was but a wee lad then.
There is a lady in our church (no longer able to attend) that is 103. Physically she is able to do very little but her mind is still very sharp. Its sad to see anyone not be able to enjoy life at all after making it that long.
My great grandmother died at 107 in 2012. She was still sharp as a tack when she died, which was heartbreaking because she was bedridden for the last two years. If my body is going to fail I just assume my mind go with it.
