If we want Medicare to work we are going to have to raise Medicare taxes and premiums.

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117. You are assuming that no medical personnel want to assist people through death. Perhaps

we should let them decide?

Again, yes, you have DNR options and suicide. But DNR doesn't mean you won't suffer until that life-ending event occurs. Perhaps someone doesn't want to wait until that point but would prefer to go at the time of diagnosis, for example. And suicide is not an option for people who have life insurance policies they want to benefit their families, and if you screw it up you might wind up living like a vegetable, hence my suggestion that medical personnel oversee the situation. It has worked very well for my pets, why not myself and the rest of my family?

What about a compromise? Your idea of dehydration, but the medical personnel keep me comfortable as possible and completely lights out so I can't give in to the thirst and screw it up? Would that be viable? (And not just at end stage, but at the point of diagnosis in the case of a terrible disease for example.)