Well, this is a less than comforting thought.
As Joe Biden has begun putting together different pieces of a future presidential administration (while violating the Logan Act in the process) he has started a Covid-19 transition team for his presumed ascension to the White House. One of the members of this transition team is Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at University of Pennsylvania, who has argued that life is not worth living after 75.
In October 2014 Dr. Emanuel, who, again, is a MEDICAL ETHICIST argued that he thinks that the perfect age to die is 75 years old and that, for many reasons, he hopes his life will end at that age. Here is part of his conclusion:
At 75 and beyond, I will need a good reason to even visit the doctor and take any medical test or treatment, no matter how routine and painless. And that good reason is not "It will prolong your life." I will stop getting any regular preventive tests, screenings, or interventions. I will accept only palliative—not curative—treatments if I am suffering pain or other disability.
This really sounds like the guy we want in charge of making medical decisions during a pandemic that is particularly dangerous and deadly for the elderly. I am sure he will have great empathy and want to get a cure quickly for those who have a higher risk of dying of Covid. For sure.
Dr. Emanuel does not argue for euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide, he does, however, argue that life after 75 is "a loss." This is also from his controversial article:
But here is a simple truth that many of us seem to resist: living too long is also a loss. It renders many of us, if not disabled, then faltering and declining, a state that may not be worse than death but is nonetheless deprived.
According to Live Action, Dr. Emanuel has gone as far as to argue that there is a need to ration healthcare for the elderly.
To ration care in order to save money, he believes, "will require changing how doctors think about their patients." In other words, doctors should assess the value they place on individual patient's lives to determine if they are worth living or not — a process often colloquially referred to as "death panels."
Like I said, less than comforting that we are bringing into government a man who believes that the government should get to choose who does and does not deserve to have health care.
I don't want to say it, but I have to. Death panels, anyone? Doesn't this sound a little too Orwellian?
Also, is Biden at all worried about trusting this guy when HE HIMSELF IS OVER AGE 75??
This is what electing officials who are full proponents of the culture of death brings. Abortion on demand and life into old age is not worth living. These are definitely the types of people we need to tell us how to behave during a dangerous pandemic.
