Should the elderly who worked all their lives with hopes of a comfortable life in their final years get their?

I'm not moving over til i'm done. [Guess what you can do with your little poem]

You know there is a difference between living and existing. People do work for most their life and many do retire and are lucky and have money to live comfortable and stay active and travel and just one day drop dead. These are the lucky ones.Others suffer for years in poor health and on fixed incomes. Then the other extreme some may have heart attack, strokes or other serious illness that are placed in intensive care and on life support costing thousands of dollars a day? Why, when do we put a stop to artificial means of prolonging life when there is no hope. Why not just help the person with comfort measures and let nature take it's course. You are old. Not much future if any to look forward to.I would rather see the money spent to give a baby or child that has their whole life ahead of them a chance. Even if I earned the money. I don't think there could be any worse hell than being kept ''alive'' when you should of checked out.Accelerated death, Heck, I don't know perhaps that would be a blessing in disguise. Just my opinion.

People should get to make their own decision about this. No doctor or health plan should ever be allowed to say when its time for someone to die if that person still wants to live and the person has the financial means or insurance plan that will cover any costs that may be incurred.

Miracles happen all the time. Some people may enter the hospital at the age of 75, seemingly with something incurable, but completely recover and live another 25 or thirty years during which they can impart lessons of long experience to the world and make it a better place.

My mom is a three time cancer survivor and at the age of 89 brings me great joy and answers questions I have that I'd be at a loss for if she were no longer among the living.

Hopefully I'll have forgotten what I just read by Wednesday morning, when once again I'll be sitting next to my husband in the infusion room while he receives his bags of "magic art"~~a.k.a. chemotherapy.

In essence he may be dying, but he still has a lot of living to do. And if the chemo makes it possible to do that for a while longer, it's his right to go for it.

Even if he so happens to be a Senior!

So screw Euripides from the past....and anyone from the present who happens to be like-minded.

I agree with S.

There is a huge difference between quality of life and quantity.

In my family (brothers, sisters, kids) we have had this discussion and we are of one opinion.

No. As long as I pay my own way and take care of myself, I will live comfortably.

they have a right to live well and die a natural death