Re: How Robots Will Steal Your Job

royls_at_telus.net
Date: 12/11/03 

Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 19:44:29 GMT

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:10:06 GMT, Roedy Green
<look-at-the-website-for-actual-Roedy@mindprod.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:22:01 GMT, royls@telus.net wrote or quoted :
>
>>Problem is, we spend about a billion dollars prolonging the terminal
>>cases that _won't_ recover for every one that does. Given that we
>>cannot escape trade-offs of money for life expectancy, that is a
>>colossal waste.
>
>It would make more sense to reorient medicine in the last year of life
>from heroic efforts at prolonging life to efforts to make that life
>comfortable. It would cost less. It would allow people to die in
>dignity. The biggie is we should not push costly, painful heroic
>efforts at life extension on those who don't want them.

More than that: we should not provide them at taxpayer expense to
those who have no reasonable expectation of measurably benefiting by
them, even if they _do_ want them.

>The controversial issue, is this. Should people be permitted to
>request help committing suicide to avoid the suffering of terminal
>illnesses.

There are a lot of other controversial issues, too.

-- Roy L

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