That's patently false. If you've got a drooling Alzheimer patient that has given up on their will to live, it's pointless to leave them hooked up to machines,

That's patently false. If you've got a drooling Alzheimer patient that has given up on their will to live, it's pointless to leave them hooked up to machines, prolonging their last painful days. There's no frontier advancement happening, just rent extraction.