Terri Schiavo
 

's widower remarries.

cnn.com link

Re: Terri Schiavo
 

Why should that be news?

Given the subheading of the category, I would think the subversive nature of this 'news' fits rather well with our self-congratulatory self-image around here.

Man trapped in 23-year 'coma' reveals horror of being unable to tell doctors he was conscious.

Should we do a $2000 test on every person in a coma to rule this out?

Did you watch 60min last night? It was about the absurdity of fighting for every last day of life, even though a person is unconscious, on lifesupport, in pain, and has no meaningful chance of recovery.

I worked with an infectious disease specialist rounding in the hospital among these unconscious very ill patients, who had been in the hospital for weeks or months, for whom death was a certainty. It could be predicted, almost on schedule, what infections and in what order they would arrive. Until finally the patient died. This doctor called it "watering the plants." Because there is a certain absurdity to it.

We can't have it all. We don't have the resources for it.

How much is worth it to you?

Well if my insurance wants to pay for it, then that's great, or if my estate can and does, but if you expect the taxpayers to do it, given the odds against such an event, then no.

so if the benefit is 1 in 100,000 cases might be found, and you are asking the government to spend $200,000,000.00 to save that one life, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Let's say that 1 in 50,000 comas has this guys situation.

And let's say the test costs $2000 and has the PERFECT ability (100% chance) to discover this disorder (almost no test has this ability).

The cost to find just one case would be $100,000,000. For Palin Tex-ites, this is a good use of our resources.

The cost to "save" 10 lives would be $1 billion.

Oh yeah, in the meantime, we have millions of children dying of measles, infectious diarrhea, malaria and other illnesses every year.

BUT LIFE IS SACRED, WE MUST NOT LET TERRI SCHIAVO DIE!!!!!!!

GOP has become the party of really, really dumb people.

You didn't answer my question. I asked how much would be worth it to you.

Anyone can just make up numbers.

could you ask a more vague question please?