The Road Not Chosen: Dont Tell Me When to Die!

This interesting tidbit comes from the L.A. Times:

Obama discusses deathbed measures

At a healthcare town hall, he says stopping futile procedures for the terminally ill can lower costs.

By Peter Nicholas
June 25, 2009

Reporting from Washington -- President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don't stand to gain from the extra care.
In a nationally televised event at the White House, Obama said families need better information so they don't unthinkingly approve "additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve care."

He added: "Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller."

I’m all for people making the most informed medical decisions possible. I don’t think the government should tell me when I or my loved ones should die. I also don’t want the government telling me I can’t have a surgery but just have to “take the painkiller”. Another way of saying that is “Sorry. You are just going to have to deal with a crappy quality of life because Big Brother says you don’t need surgery.”

(Did you know that in Nazi Germany they rounded up the mentally retarded and the mentally ill and started killing them before even the Jews had been rounded up? The Nazi started it’s murderous rampage with those society sees as the weakest, those who were least able to fight back. I’m just sayin’….)

I’ve actually been surprised at the L.A.Times which has always been a liberal paper, for calling out Obama on the various issues that he is trying to propose that would erode the freedoms we have been granted under the Constitution. I knew the tide was turning when Bill Maher stated on his show that Obama turned out to not be the guy Maher thought he was.

All I know is that we need to pray, fast and keep asking God to move in power in our nation. I don’t want us to be like the nation of Israel who so turned their backs on God that He allowed the Babylonians to capture Israel & drag them off to slavery.

Each day seems a bit darker than before in this nation. I am so glad that my life doesn’t end here on earth and that no matter how dark it looks or becomes I have an eternity of joy in Heaven to look forward to. What about you?