TheHeretic
Posts: 19100
Joined: 3/25/2007 From: California, USA Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: dcnovice Years ago, I was discussing the rising cost of health care with one of my brothers. He's a professional health care wonk, and I always marvel at his ability to discuss the subject intelligently and dispassionately. The one time I saw him get fervent on the topic was when I commented, "This is going to sound terribly cold, but I think a big part of the problem is that we don't accept that people die." My brother got all excited. "Exactly!" he said. Apparently some huge percentage of an average person's lifetime health care costs stem from the last six months, often because of well-meaning efforts to stave off the inevitable. That is some absolute truth in my bold, Level It only keeps sounding cold when people get stuck on an instinctive emotional response, instead of a thinking one. It comes from those who come to a stop at, "life is precious," instead of embracing the whole, that "life is precious because we only get so much of it."
_____________________________
If you lose one sense, your other senses are enhanced. That's why people with no sense of humor have such an inflated sense of self-importance.
|