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Why Is America So Bad at Keeping People Alive?
- h2odragon 5y agoLength is not the only metric by which we could judge a life. There's people who die young, fat, and happy; I will not say their choices were wrong. https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/06/football/jean-pierre-adams-death-spt-intl/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/06/football/jean-pierre-adams-de... > Jean-Pierre Adams, an ex-footballer who *fell into a coma in 1982* following a botched knee operation, has died at the age of 73 Stories like this make me tell my family to make sure i never fall into the hands of doctors. "DNR orders" and the like are not enough, when you're in the hospital they will drug you and tag team people to argue how much you need to rescind one.
- ZeroGravitas 5y ago> with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,