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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zgV3" data-source="post: 2938806" data-attributes="member: 155565">To what cost?It is finacially breaking the country, causing older people to be forgotten by family and cast aside, increasing the cost of medical care due to the increase in illness, and causing many to live in poverty due to having exceeded thier planned incomes.In and of itself, it is neither ethical nor inethical.  But it does bring up many ethical issues that need to be delt with- right to die, right to life, right to quality of life, who pays for the health care and how, who provides health care and how.  These are all issues you are just blithly jumping over for the sake of a phantom that looks better on paper then it will ever play out in real life.  If you have any doubts of this, go spend some time in a nursing home.</blockquote>