AP (The New York Times); National Desk
March 29, 1984, Thursday
Late City Final Edition, Section A, Page 16, Column 5, 512 words
Elderly people who are terminally ill have a ''duty to die and get out of the way'' instead of trying to prolong their lives by artificial means, Gov. Richard D. Lamm of Colorado said Tuesday. People who die without having life artificially extended are similar to ''leaves falling off ...
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Of course he complained and complained, as the link shows, that he didn't say it, that it was out of context, etc. Never the less:
Mr. Lamm provided excerpts from the 1984 speech, in which he spoke philosophically about the terminally ill of any age, about the extraordinary costs of high-technology medicine and about the ability of medical science to stave off death far beyond considerations of quality of life. After saying that society should be talking about the ethical implications, Mr. Lamm said, according to the excerpts: "We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life."
Why do these politicians always hide behind the "spoke philosophy" bit? It is plain that the Democratic health plan has a basic cost containment rule that the elderly should be denied care. Been that way for 25 years.
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