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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I can't put a value on my grandmother's life, and if there was a chance she could have come out of it, maybe it was "worth it."
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Maybe it was, but, not to be callous, worth it to whom? To you? To her? If it is worth it to you, then you should be willing to pay for it. It's hard to make an argument that it is worth it to society in general, in just about any way. It is difficult to see how most end of life care, except palliative care, has much benefit to society in general.
Contra: funds spent on the young and preventative meds. Everyone has an interest in keeping the young healthy so they aren't around being feeble and a societal and economic drain for the next 70 years. And everyone has an interest in good preventative medicine for everyone else - we all benefit from more knowledge on how not to get sick in the first place, not getting infected by other sick people, having fewer resources expended to treat disease early instead of paying more to treat advanced disease, and keeping otherwise productive people productive.
