The AARP endorsing a plan that mandates “end of life counseling” for all seniors doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. Won’t this hurt their own membership numbers?
Obama might as well be asking seniors to hitch a ride on Hale-Bopp.
I’m trying to think of equivalent situations and all I can come up with is tobacco companies that knew they were killing their own customers but at least they were milking them dry for profit on the way to the grave.
I’m used to the left being somewhat anti-human. I mean, let’s face it the only thing environmentalists like about humans is that we’re biodegradable upon death (except Pamela Anderson). But what is it with the left that insists upon killing its own members or just acting against their own long term best interests?
Liberals fought so hard for “reproductive choice” so that they could…what? Kill off little baby pro-choicers. And then they’re shocked…shocked I say when just one generation into the “freedom to choose” era, the country is filling with pro-life people. Duh. That’s because pro-lifers have mainly pro-life children and lots of them while the future pro-choice generation is tossed out in clear bio-hazard bags behind the abortion clinic.
The left, which includes a majority of Jewish folks and homosexuals, are constantly seeking to appease Muslims. Do they not realize that a pretty decent sized chunk of the Muslim population wouldn’t even say thanks before lobbing off their heads first?
But this AARP thing really kills me. They’ve essentially been a Democratic front group for years even thought the Democratic Party has clearly been labeled the “Legislation passed by this party might be dangerous to very small children and pregnant women” party.
So now that it’s apparent that all the social programs that previous generations voted for themselves and borrowed from children and grandchildren that they didn’t actually find time to have, has bankrupted the country. In short, because we wiped out much of the next generation there are less workers to support old people. Thus we get old people mandated to attend “end of life counseling” which essentially says ‘we can’t afford to keep you around so would you mind plugging yourself into ‘The Mercy Machine’ so we can go through your pockets for loose change to buy condoms for junior high schoolers?”
It’s all kind of funny in a sad way that senior citizens have raised hell every time some legislator raises the specter of having old people take driving tests. Seniors have shouted that suggestion down at every turn in a loud and unified voice. And they’ve won because they vote in large numbers and legislators are afraid of people who vote. But then we get virtual silence when legislators are mandating that seniors go see someone who’s going to tell them that killing yourself isn’t as bad as it used to be?
I say seniors should not allow themselves to be talked into killing themselves. They should die like so many other seniors do…by mistaking the gas for the brake, leveling a 7-11 and taking out the cashier and the dude at the Slurpee machine who’s always asking strangers for a few nickels so he can call his “lady friend” for a ride home.
July 24, 2009 at 12:08 pm
At last 10 years ago I read an article in my parents' AARP magazine about "dying with dignity," in which I was appalled to read people saying that they wanted the "right" to end their lives before they got really, really, REALLY sick ( a little sick was okay). One woman said she would not want people to remember her as frail and in pain. I remember being astonished at the hubris of this remark — maybe her family would rather have her around and take care of her than not have her around at all. But she didn't care about them, only about herself.
This week The Anchoress cited an article in the London Times about a man who helped his wife kill herself — he said he had always been against it, but she was in pain and when she asked him clearly and rationally to take her to Switzerland to get killed what else was he supposed to do???
The Baby Boomer generation thinks the world of itself, but only when it's in top form.
July 24, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Matt- this is truly sad. It is amazing how disallusioned and disingenuious their message is.
The same is true with the Teacher's Union. Why the heck are these guys pro-choice? More kids mean more jobs. More kids mean less school closures and downsizing. Aren't these the things we often hear teachers complaining about??
My husband taught h.s. for 1 year and he would NOT join the union. However, he still had to pay dues.
July 24, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Universal madness is descending upon the earth as the first death-cry of a looming hell; woe to the sane who are left to roam among the damned and the demons.
July 24, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Now let me speak clearly, as I want to be post partisan about this. What if we have five year "talks," but Grandma has to spin around with a bat ten times before getting into her car and driving to the "Let's talk about Dying With Dignity," building. That way… I think everybody wins. Except greedy doctors, cops, and innocent bystanders. Because it's not about playing politics, and it's not about me.
July 24, 2009 at 6:08 pm
AARP has been a left-wing front organization for many years. The last thing they are concerned with is advancing the interest of their members.
July 24, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Another reason I refuse to join these senile nitwits.
My greatest wish is to die peacefully in my sleep and the heck with the passengers in my car!
July 24, 2009 at 7:20 pm
AARP is exactly as Father Erik says. I'm 63 and hubby will be 65 in September and guess what? We will not be having any counseling sessions if this thing gets passed in any way shape or form.
Isn't enough that they're ruining the lives of seniors with Medicare?
July 24, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Grammar interlude.
Matt, please, there are FEWER workers to support old people.
Jen, More kids mean FEWER school closures.
"Less" is only used for quantities measured in bulk. For discrete items, anything measured one by one, the correct term is "fewer."
Less, flour, fewer loaves of bread, as my mother (who died, thank God, before anyone told her she should kill herself!) used to say.
Susan (who sings.."when we've been there ten thousand years etc…we've no FEWER days to sing God's praise" even though it messes up the metre.
July 24, 2009 at 8:53 pm
What will be the penalities for not going to ones counseling session?
Susan Peterson
July 24, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Eulogos, didn't know you were a grammar geek;) I'll be sure to have my Strunk and White handy next time I'm writing.
As per missing one's counseling meeting, your absence will be considered compliance and acceptance of death which will be visited upon you from medical technicians who used to work for the Department of Motor Vehicles.
July 27, 2009 at 5:24 pm
As usual, this whole topic is a lie. The only thing mandatory about the "end of life" counseling is that Medicare has to pay for it.
Perhaps you wouldn't be so confused if you actually read more about the provision you were writing about.